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SUMMARY:Our Moms: a Virtual Book Bingo Adventure featuring NYT bestselling and fan favorite authors Judith Lindbergh\, Anesa Miller\, Karen E. Osborne\, Jennifer Rosner\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Zoro the Drummer
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event:\n“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” – Maya Angelou  \nIn honor of celebrating the powerful women who raised us\, we are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (Our Moms): a Virtual Adventure. \nIf you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 130 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \nDive into the stories of stories by and about mothers by playing book bingo with six New York Times bestselling and book club favorite authors: Judith Lindbergh\, Anesa Miller\, Karen E. Osborne\, Jennifer Rosner\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Zoro the Drummer. Enjoy presentations by the authors\, while playing an interactive virtual game of bingo\, including fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great reads! \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information. \nAbout the Authors\n \nJudith Lindbergh is an author\, poet\, and photographer and Founder of The Writers Circle\, which aims to teach aspiring and accomplished writers of all ages. Her debut novel\, The Thrall’s Tale\, about three women in the first Viking Age settlement in Greenland\, was an IndieBound Pick\, a Borders Original Voices Selection\, and praised by Pulitzer Prize winners Geraldine Brooks and Robert Olen Butler. \nHer latest novel\, Akmaral\, set to release on May 7th\, 2024\, is about a nomad woman warrior on the Central Asian steppes in the 5th century BCE\, that was inspired by legends of Amazon women warriors told by ancient Greek historian Herodotus. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Judith or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n \nAnesa Miller is a bestselling fiction author who was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in Creative Writing from the Ohio Arts Council in 1998. Her poems and prose have been published in The Kenyon Review\, The Cream City Review\, The California Quarterly\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, and many others. One of her novels\, Our Orbit\, was a finalist in regional fiction in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. \nHer newest novel\, I Never Do This\, is a compassionate\, thoughtful narrative about hard-won self-realizations. Anesa exposes readers to the unforgettable voice of a young woman\, LaDene Faye Howell\, who finds herself in police custody recounting her story after her paroled cousin Bobbie Frank appears and engages her in a crime spree. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Anesa or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n \nKaren E. Osborne always knew she possessed a talent and immense passion for writing. Her novels followed a forty-year career\, first as an academic administrator and then co-owner of The Osborne Group\, serving as a consultant\, trainer\, and motivational speaker. Karen released her first novel\, Getting it Right\, in 2017 to notable acclaim and received attention for her compelling writing style that aims to explore questions of race\, privilege\, and family loyalties. \nHer novel titled Reckonings is a fast-paced\, tightly knit\, family drama with a female protagonist at the heart who\, despite painful adolescence memories and present financial and personal hardship\, has the courage and tenacity to confront her life’s challenges head on. Through her incredibly vivid imagery and suspenseful diction\, Karen traces the treacherous path between good intentions and poor decisions rooted in the shame of toxic secrets. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Karen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n \nJennifer Rosner is a bestselling author whose work has been recognized\, awarded\, and translated dozens of times. Additionally\, her short writing has appeared in the New York Times\, The Times of Israel\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Forward\, and elsewhere. Jennifer also teaches philosophy and received her BA from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. \nHer debut novel The Yellow Bird Sings centers around the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter amidst the horrors of World War II. Jennifer’s novel is called “exquisite\, heart-rending… an absolutely beautiful and necessary novel” by The New York Times Book Review and was a Finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Award. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n \nAimie K. Runyan is an author who writes fiction\, both historical and contemporary\, that celebrates the spirit of strong women. In addition to her writing\, she is active as a speaker and educator in the writing community. Aimie has also been honored as a Historical Novel Society Editors’ Choice selection\, as a 3-time finalist for the Colorado Book Awards\, and as a nominee for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer of the Year. \nHer latest novel\, The Memory of Lavender and Sage\, is set in the lush hillsides of Provence and explores the life of a woman unmoored after the death of her father. The female protagonist decides to seek out the truth regarding her mother’s past\, only to unveil shocking truths about her family along the way. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Aimie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n \nAs one of the world’s most respected musicians\, Zoro the Drummer has sat on the drummer’s throne commanding some of the most famous stages in the world of rock and R&B music. He has toured and recorded with Lenny Kravitz\, Bobby Brown\, The New Edition\, Jody Watley\, Philip Bailey of Earth Wind & Fire\, and many more. Additionally\, Zoro is an educator\, motivational speaker and author of The Big Gig: Big-Picture Thinking For Success. \nZoro’s upcoming novel\, Maria’s Scarf: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love\, a Son’s Perseverance\, and Dreaming Big\, is a beautiful and transformative memoir that tells the story of a family fighting for survival against almost insurmountable odds. Through laughter\, tears\, and many misadventures\, Zoro touches the heart of every reader—young or old\, citizen or immigrant—and speaks to the dreamer in all of us\, emboldening everyone to live fantastical lives. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Zoro or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or are your group of friends\, colleagues\, and family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that most\, if not all\, of the featured authors are members of our wonderful community of over 145 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here.
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SUMMARY:Coral Tree Tea House Adventure featuring USA Today & international bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt\nYour presence is requested at our upcoming Tea adventure with international and USA Today bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood. Tracey’s new novel\, The President’s Wife\, presents a vivid portrait of a woman whose remarkable role and achievements in history have largely been relegated to the shadows. \nDon’t miss this delectable Adventure at San Diego’s historic Coral Tree Tea House\, where we will enjoy a charming tea service while Tracey divulges more about her incredible story of the First Lady who clandestinely assumed the presidency.   \nYour Adventure includes tea delicacies such as tea sandwiches\, Waldorf salad\, pastries\, Devonshire cream\, tax\, gratuity\, author presentation\, book signing\, and the opportunity to meet the author up-close and personal in an intimate setting. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nTracey Enerson Wood is an international and USA Today bestselling author of four books\, as well as a published playwright whose family is steeped in military tradition. Tracey has authored magazine columns and has written and directed plays and screenplays. The Engineer’s Wife is her first published novel and quickly became a bestseller\, both internationally and in the U.S. \nTracey’s newest novel\, The President’s Wife\, is at once sweeping and intimate. Centered around Socialite Edith Bolling and her unexpected\, sudden marriage to President Woodrow Wilson\, Tracey effectively paints the astonishing portrait of a courageous First Lady and the sacrifices she made to protect her husband and her country at all costs. \nThroughout the novel\, Edith must learn how to contend with the demands of a tumultuous country\, the secrets of Woodrow’s true condition\, and the potentially devastating consequences of her failure. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Tracey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\nAbout Coral Tree Tea House\n \nCoral Tree Tea House is located at 2490 Heritage Park Row\, San Diego\, CA\, 92110\, in Old Town’s historic Heritage County Park. There is nowhere else in San Diego where you can relax in a Victorian home in a beautifully landscaped public park\, which also happens to be dedicated to preserving seven homes that were saved for their historical significance to the city. \nRelax in one of the beautiful dining rooms where every seat offers a glorious view of the park\, and indulge in a generous array of delicious savories\, tea sandwiches\, freshly baked scones\, and decadent desserts!
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LOCATION:Coral Tree Tea House\, 2490 Heritage Park Row\, San Diego\, CA 92110
CATEGORIES:Tea Adventures
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SUMMARY:Reading Between the Vines: a Wine & Book Pairing Adventure featuring New York Times and international bestselling author Shilpi Somaya Gowda
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person\, Adventure\n\n“Language is wine upon the lips” – Virginia Woolf\nVirginia Woolf made the connection between language and wine\, so we wanted to take a page from her and create an entire Adventures by the Book series devoted to the pairing of wine and books. Voila! Join us for our next event in the Reading Between the Vines series\, which will take place once again at the estate producer Hook & Ladder Winery\, 2134 Olivet Rd\, Santa Rosa\, in Sonoma County\, California\, as part of their exciting new Book & Ladder Club! \nWith the assistance of Melier\, we invite you to indulge in a sumptuous bubble tasting and book pairing experience\, presented under California’s brilliant trademark sunshine. Enjoy a light brunch of pastries and Hook & Ladder bubbles\, meet New York Times and international bestselling author Shilpi Somaya Gowda and learn about her latest novel\, A Great Country. \nYour Adventure includes a glass of Hook & Ladder bubbles specifically selected to pair with Shilpi’s book\, pastries\, a signed hardcover copy of A Great Country\, author presentation\, Q&A\, book signing\, and the opportunity to meet the author in a relaxed and intimate setting at the beautiful Hook & Ladder Winery property. \n\nAbout the Author\n \nShilpi Somaya Gowda is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels\, which have been #1 international bestsellers in several countries and sold more than two million copies worldwide. \nSecret Daughter (2010) was a Target Book Club Pick\, an Amnesty International Book Club Pick\, and is currently in production with Amazon Studios to be a feature film\, starring Priyanka Chopra and Sienna Miller. The Golden Son (2015) was also a Target Book Club Pick\, a Costco Buyer’s Pick\, and was awarded the French literary prize\, Prix des Lyceens Folio. The Shape of Family (2020) was an international and American bestseller. \nHer new novel\, A Great Country\, explores themes of immigration\, generational conflict\, social class\, and privilege as it reconsiders the myth of the model minority and questions the price of the American dream. \nEvent Registration\nFree registration via Hook & Ladder is available now. Books and wine will be available for sale and signing at the event. Only books purchased at the event are eligible for signing. \n\nAbout Hook & Ladder Winery\nHook & Ladder is an “estate” producer\, specializing in small bottlings of Pinot Noir\, “Old Vine” Zinfandel\, Chardonnay\, Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blends sourced from the family’s sustainably-farmed vineyards in Russian River Valley and its sub-appellation\, Chalk Hill. The winery also produces and sells estate-grown Olive Oil from trees grown at their Los Amigos Ranch. \n\n\nAbout Melier\nLuxury tastes shouldn’t be confined to luxury resorts. Book a Melier experience and enjoy private wine & culinary experiences from your home\, office\, or vacation rental. And when you book with Melier\, you’re directly supporting the tastemakers who are bringing their creations to life.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/shilpi-somaya-gowda-4-21-24/
LOCATION:Hook and Ladder: 2134 Olivet Road\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95401
CATEGORIES:Wine Pairing
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SUMMARY:The Maid: a Carlsbad Reads Together Adventure featuring New York Times bestselling author Nita Prose
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In-Person\, Adventure\n\nBefore she knows what’s happening\, Molly’s unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception\, one she has no idea how to untangle. \nDoes that riveting excerpt already have you on the edge of your seat? Then come meet New York Times bestselling author Nita Prose\, the 2024 Carlsbad City Library Reads Together featured author\, as she discusses her bestselling murder mystery novel\, The Maid\, in conversation with ABTB founder Susan McBeth. \nClue-like\, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit\, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different–and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart. \n\nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. However\, make sure to visit the Carlsbad City Library website for instructions to obtain your free\, first-come\, first-served ticket (required) for the event. \nCopies of The Maid and Nita’s new book\, The Mystery Guest\, are available for pre-sale below to be delivered to the event for signing. Books will be also be available for purchase and signing at the event. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nNita Prose is the author of The Maid\, which has sold over one million copies worldwide and was published in more than forty countries. A #1 New York Times bestseller and a “Good Morning America” book club pick\, The Maid won the Ned Kelly Award for In­ternational Crime Fiction\, the Fingerprint Award for Debut Novel of the Year\, the Anthony Award for Best First Novel\, and the Barry Award for Best First Mys­tery\, and was an Edgar Award finalist for Best Novel. Additionally\, it is currently in development as a major motion picture. \nIn her new stand alone novel\, The Mystery Guest\, it’s up to Molly the maid to uncover the truth\, no matter how dirty. \n\nAbout the Carlsbad City Library\n\n\nCarlsbad City Library provides community members of all ages with convenient access to high-quality resources and services to inform and enrich individual and community life. Carlsbad City Library is the destination for information\, enjoyment of reading\, lifelong learning\, and cultural enrichment for those who live\, work and play in Carlsbad.
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LOCATION:Carlsbad City Library\, 1775 Dove Lane\, Carlsbad\, CA\, 92011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Library Adventures
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SUMMARY:Double Trouble: A Book Launch Adventure Featuring bestselling authors Abbi Waxman and Lian Dolan
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n\nWhat do you get when you mix two fun\, witty authors with not one\, but two\, debut novels: double trouble! \n…So come join us for double the fun as we celebrate the launch of USA Today bestselling authors Abbi Waxman and Lian Dolan’s respective novels at Napatini Wine Bar and Bistro. Enjoy a delicious glass of wine (or non-alcoholic option)\, along with some scrumptious happy hour charcuterie and flatbreads\, and learn more about Christa Comes Out of Her Shell and The Marriage Sabbatical. \nYour Adventure includes a happy hour experience\, a glass of wine paired with a generous assortment of delicious happy hour bites\, tax\, gratuity\, and an opportunity to meet Abbi and Lian up close and personal in an intimate setting. \n\nAbout the Authors\n \nAbbi Waxman is a USA Today bestselling author of I Was Told It Would Get Easier\, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill\, Other People’s Houses\, and The Garden of Small Beginnings. She worked in advertising for many years\, which is how she learned to write fiction. Abbi lives in Los Angeles\, California\, with her husband and three children. \nHer upcoming novel\, Christa Comes Out of Her Shell\, is a hilarious and insightful new novel about a reserved scientist who is suddenly thrown into the public light when her once-famous-father\, presumed to be dead\, turns up one day alive and well. \nAs Christina struggles to make amends with her father and juggles with her sudden thrust into public scrutiny\, she also rekindles an old relationship and begins to experience turmoil in both her professional and personal life. \nThis novel explores themes of loss\, uncertainty\, and change\, making it universally relatable to anyone who has experienced sudden\, immense obstacles in their lives. \n\n \nLian Dolan is the author of four best-selling novels and is the producer and host of Satellite Sisters\, the award-winning talk show she created with her four real sisters. A speaker who combines humor and heart\, Lian has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show\, CBS Sunday Morning\, and The Today Show. She’s been a featured speaker at the LA Times Festival of Books\, the Santa Barbara Celebrity Authors Lunch\, and dozens of other events at libraries\, bookstores\, schools\, and women’s organizations across the country. \nLian’s newest novel\, The Marriage Sabbatical\, follows Jason and Nicole Elswick\, a married couple who are ready for a break from their daily lives. The couple agrees to take nine months pursuing their own adventures—with a bit of don’t-ask-don’t-tell—and then return to their shared lives. \nAs Jason bikes his way across a continent and Nicole reclaims the art she’s long neglected\, they discover both the pleasures and pitfalls of being apart. This causes them to confront temptations of all kinds and uncomfortable truths\, as well as gain a new perspective on their partnership. \nThis fun\, witty\, and romantic novel stands out for exploring the humorous\, fleeting thought: what if you could take a vacation from your marriage? \nTo schedule a book club visit with Lian or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\n\nAbout Napatini Bistro and Wine Bar\nLynn and Gary McLean are the owner-operators of Carlsbad’s Napatini Bistro & Wine Bar. They moved to San Diego’s North County in 2019 from the San Francisco Bay Area\, where they lived very close to California Wine Country. Long story made short: This is a bucket list to-do for Lynn & Gary! \n“We wanted a wine experience. Our friends and we thought of all the great times we had at wine tasting rooms in Wine Country. We thought that if we were ever given the opportunity\, we would try to mimic that wine-tasting room experience- at least as much as practical- by opening a wine bar\, minus elaborate decor. After hitting a number of challenges we opened in December 2022!”
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/abbi-waxman/
LOCATION:Napatini Bistro and Wine Bar 3800 State St #100 Carlsbad\, CA 92008
CATEGORIES:Happy Hour Adventures
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SUMMARY:Korean Dinner Adventure featuring acclaimed author A.H. Kim in conversation with SoCal author Kristin Rockaway
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” — Jane Austen \nAnd let’s take a moment in time to meet acclaimed author A.H. Kim\, in conversation with SoCal author Kristin Rockaway\, in this Korean Dinner Adventure to celebrate Ann’s new book\, Relative Strangers\, a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility\, a twenty-first-century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters\, their ex-hippie mother\, multiple messy love affairs and one explosive secret that could ruin everything. \nJoin us at Buga Korean BBQ for an authentic and delicious dinner and a lively book discussion! Experience the exquisite tastes of Korean cuisine and learn all about A.H’s witty and entertaining retelling and how it explores love\, loss\, grief\, and forgiveness through the perspectives of two sisters. \nYour Adventure includes dinner\, soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, and an opportunity to meet the authors up close and personal in an intimate setting! Pre-order your book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Copies will also be available at the event for purchase and signing. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nA.H. Kim (Ann) was born in Seoul\, South Korea and immigrated to the U.S. as a young child. Ann was educated at Harvard College and Berkeley Law School\, where she was an editor of the California Law Review. Ann practiced corporate law for many years and served as chief of staff to the CEO and as head of investor relations at a Fortune 200 company. \nAnn’s second novel\, Relative Strangers is a contemporary retelling of Sense and Sensibility and explores themes of love\, loss\, grief\, and forgiveness. \nAmelia Bae-Wood’s life is falling apart. Unemployed\, newly single and completely broke—for reasons she hasn’t told anyone yet—she finds herself hitchhiking across California to deal with the fallout of her mother’s eviction from the family estate. Amelia needs somewhere to live and time to figure out what to do with the rest of her life\, so moving with her mother and sister to Arcadia\, the cancer retreat center where her sister volunteers\, seems like as good an idea as any. \nAmelia’s sister\, Eleanor\, has too much on her plate\, including being caught up in a court battle with a man who claims to be their half brother from Seoul and their late father’s only son—a secret love child from his Korean youth—who’s fighting for a piece of everything that belongs to the Bae-Wood women. And when Amelia adds herself to Eleanor’s list of problems\, Eleanor must figure out what to hold on to—and when to let go—before things starts to unravel. \nA witty\, wry and enormously entertaining retelling\, the sisters’ journey of self-discovery as they reshape their lives gives this classic tale a modern\, feminist twist\, as it touches on themes of blended families\, race\, class and wealth. \n  \nAbout the Moderator\n \nKristin Rockaway is a native New Yorker living in Southern California. She’s the author of six novels\, including Smart Girl Summer\, Life\, Unscheduled\, and How to Hack a Heartbreak\, which has been optioned for television. In addition to writing\, she teaches Fiction with Gotham Writers Workshop and runs a boutique travel agency called Novel World Travel. When she’s not working\, she enjoys spending time with her husband and son and planning her next big vacation. \n  \nAbout Buga Korean BBQ\nBuga is a premium traditional Korean BBQ restaurant serving San Diego since 2001. They proudly present to you the highest quality and the authentic experience with their friendly service. \n \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kristin-rockaway-a-h-kim/
LOCATION:Buga Korean BBQ 5580 Clairemont Mesa Blvd San Diego\, 92117
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SUMMARY:Korean Lunch Adventure (LA) featuring acclaimed author A.H. Kim in conversation with author Rosa Kwon Easton
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” — Jane Austen \nAnd let’s take a moment in time to meet acclaimed author A.H. Kim\, in conversation with author Rosa Kwon Easton\, in this Los Angeles Korean Lunch Adventure to celebrate Ann’s new book. Relative Strangers is a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility\, a twenty-first-century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters\, their ex-hippie mother\, multiple messy love affairs and one explosive secret that could ruin everything. \nJoin us at Yong Su San in Los Angeles for an authentic and delicious lunch and a lively book discussion! Experience the exquisite tastes of Korean cuisine and learn all about A.H’s witty and entertaining retelling\, and how it explores love\, loss\, grief\, and forgiveness through the perspectives of two sisters. \nYour Adventure includes delicious Korean lunch\, hot tea\, tax\, gratuity\, and an opportunity to meet the authors up close and personal in an intimate setting! Pre-order your book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Copies will also be available at the event for purchase and signing. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nA.H. Kim (Ann) was born in Seoul\, South Korea and immigrated to the U.S. as a young child. Ann was educated at Harvard College and Berkeley Law School\, where she was an editor of the California Law Review. Ann practiced corporate law for many years and served as chief of staff to the CEO and as head of investor relations at a Fortune 200 company. \nAnn’s second novel\, Relative Strangers is a contemporary retelling of Sense and Sensibility and explores themes of love\, loss\, grief\, and forgiveness. \nAmelia Bae-Wood’s life is falling apart. Unemployed\, newly single and completely broke—for reasons she hasn’t told anyone yet—she finds herself hitchhiking across California to deal with the fallout of her mother’s eviction from the family estate. Amelia needs somewhere to live and time to figure out what to do with the rest of her life\, so moving with her mother and sister to Arcadia\, the cancer retreat center where her sister volunteers\, seems like as good an idea as any. \nAmelia’s sister\, Eleanor\, has too much on her plate\, including being caught up in a court battle with a man who claims to be their half-brother from Seoul and their late father’s only son—a secret love child from his Korean youth—who’s fighting for a piece of everything that belongs to the Bae-Wood women. And when Amelia adds herself to Eleanor’s list of problems\, Eleanor must figure out what to hold on to—and when to let go—before things start to unravel. \nA witty\, wry\, and enormously entertaining retelling\, the sisters’ journey of self-discovery as they reshape their lives gives this classic tale a modern\, feminist twist\, as it touches on themes of blended families\, race\, class\, and wealth. \n  \nAbout the Moderator\n \nRosa Kwon Easton is a debut author whose novels White Mulberry\, and Red Seal\, the sequel\, will be published in a two-book deal\, in winter 2024 and 2026. She is a lawyer\, trustee\, and former President of the publicly-elected Board of Trustees of the Palos Verdes Library District. She is an Anaphora Writing Residency Fellow and a semi-finalist for the Sunspot Lit short story award. Her work can be found in CRAFT Literary\, Writer’s Digest\, StoryCenter.org\, and others. Born in Seoul\, South Korea\, she grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Palos Verdes with her husband and Maltipoo.  \n  \nAbout Yong Su San\nYong Su San has served traditional Korean cuisine to the city of Los Angeles for thirty years. “Yongsusan” means “dragon water mountain\,” the name of a mountain in Kaesung\, capital of the ancient Koryo Dynasty. Yong Su San’s Master Chef and founder Sang Oak Choi was born and raised in Kaesung and mastered both the Kaesung and Royal Court styles of cooking. Yongsusan specializes in Kaesung and Royal Court cuisine\, which is now special and difficult to come by even in Korea. \n \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/a-h-kim/
LOCATION:Yong Su San Restaurant 950 S Vermont Avenue Los Angeles\, California
CATEGORIES:Event,Lunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:A Great Country: a Carlsbad City Library Adventure featuring New York Times and international bestselling author Shilpi Somaya Gowda
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In-Person\, Adventure\n\nWe invite you to explore themes of immigration\, generational conflict\, social class\, privilege\, and the price of the American dream with New York Times and international bestselling author Shilpi Somaya Gowda at the Carlsbad City Library as she introduces her new novel\, A Great Country\, the story of a close-knit Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with the police \nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. However\, copies of A Great Country are available for pre-sale below and they will be delivered to the event for signing. Books will be also be available for purchase and signing at the event. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nShilpi Somaya Gowda is the New York Times bestselling author of 3 novels: Secret Daughter (2010)\, The Golden Son (2015)\, and The Shape of Family (2020). Her novels have been translated into over 30 languages\, been #1 international bestsellers in several countries and sold more than two million copies worldwide. \nShilpi was born and raised in Toronto\, Canada. In college\, she spent a summer as a volunteer in an Indian orphanage\, which seeded the idea for her first novel: Secret Daughter was an IndieNext Great Read\, a Target Book Club Pick\, a ChaptersIndigo Heather’s Pick\, and an Amnesty International Book Club Pick. It was a finalist for the South African Boeke Literary Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It is currently in production with Amazon Studios to be a feature film\, starring Priyanka Chopra and Sienna Miller. \nThe Golden Son was also a Target Book Club Pick\, a Costco Buyer’s Pick\, and was awarded the French literary prize\, Prix des Lyceens Folio. The Shape of Family was an international and American bestseller. Her next novel is slated for publication in 2024 in multiple territories. \nHer new novel\, A Great Country\, explores themes of immigration\, generational conflict\, social class and privilege as it reconsiders the myth of the model minority and questions the price of the American dream. \n\nAbout the Carlsbad City Library\n\n\nCarlsbad City Library provides community members of all ages with convenient access to high-quality resources and services to inform and enrich individual and community life. Carlsbad City Library is the destination for information\, enjoyment of reading\, lifelong learning\, and cultural enrichment for those who live\, work and play in Carlsbad.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/shilpi-somaya-gowda-3-30-24/
LOCATION:Carlsbad City Library\, 1775 Dove Lane\, Carlsbad\, CA\, 92011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Library Adventures
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SUMMARY:A Great Country Indian Lunch Adventure featuring NYT and international bestselling author Shilpi Somaya Gowda
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\n“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi \nAre you ready for a propulsive\, moving\, and bold Adventure with San Diego-based author Shilpi Somaya Gowda? Then join us to discuss her latest novel\, A Great Country\, and discover how a shift in perspective can change everything! \nIn her latest book imbued with compassion\, Shilpi doesn’t shy away from difficult questions about privilege\, solidarity\, and community. Over an authentic\, flavorful Indian lunch\, let’s dive deeper into the ties and fractures of a close-knit Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with police. \nYour Adventure includes lunch\, dessert\, soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, and an opportunity to meet Shilpi up close and personal in an intimate setting. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nShilpi Somaya Gowda is the New York Times bestselling author of 3 novels: Secret Daughter (2010)\, The Golden Son (2015)\, and The Shape of Family (2020). Her novels have been translated into over 30 languages\, been #1 international bestsellers in several countries and sold more than two million copies worldwide. \nShilpi was born and raised in Toronto\, Canada. In college\, she spent a summer as a volunteer in an Indian orphanage\, which seeded the idea for her first novel: Secret Daughter was an IndieNext Great Read\, a Target Book Club Pick\, a ChaptersIndigo Heather’s Pick\, and an Amnesty International Book Club Pick. It was a finalist for the South African Boeke Literary Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It is currently in production with Amazon Studios to be a feature film\, starring Priyanka Chopra and Sienna Miller. \nHer new novel\, A Great Country\, explores themes of immigration\, generational conflict\, social class and privilege as it reconsiders the myth of the model minority and questions the price of the American dream. \n  \n\nAbout Himalayan Grill Restaurant\n  Himalayan Grill has been serving Indian Nepalese fine dining for over 20 years. Their executive chef takes the cuisine and culture of his homeland to the next level with breathtaking and delicious dishes.  \nThe Chef’s mastery of traditional spices and flavors makes each dish an opportunity to experience classics and delicacies in new and exciting ways. Every plate becomes a culinary journey.  
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/shilpi-somaya-gowda-3-29-24/
LOCATION:Himalayan Grill 9842 Hibert Street\, San Diego\, CA
CATEGORIES:Lunch Adventures
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SUMMARY:Reading Between the Vines: a Wine & Book Pairing Adventure featuring cookbook author and memoirist Brigit Binns
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\n“Language is wine upon the lips” – Virginia Woolf\nVirginia Woolf made the connection between language and wine\, so we wanted to take a page from her and create an entire Adventures by the Book series devoted to the pairing of wine and books. Voila! Introducing our new Reading Between the Vines series to take place at the estate producer Hook & Ladder Winery\, 2134 Olivet Rd\, Santa Rosa\, in Sonoma County\, California! \nWith the assistance of Melier\, indulge in an afternoon filled with a sumptuous wine tasting and book pairing experience\, presented under California’s brilliant trademark sunshine. While you sample some of the delectable wines that Hook & Ladder Winery is known for\, meet prolific cookbook author Brigit Binns and learn about her new memoir\, Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival. \nYour Adventure includes a glass of Hook & Ladder wine specifically selected to pair with Brigit’s book\, a signed paperback copy of Rottenkid\, author presentation\, Q&A\, book signing\, and the opportunity to meet the author in a relaxed and intimate setting at the beautiful Hook & Ladder Winery property. \n\nAbout the Author\n \nBrigit Binns is the author or co-author of 25 cookbooks\, many of them for Williams-Sonoma\, as well as ghost-writer on many others. During the ten years she spent living in Europe\, Brigit graduated from England’s Tante Marie cooking school\, lived and catered in Spain for three years\, and edited the Costa del Sol’s English-language magazine. \nBrigit’s cookbook Eating Up the West Coast: The best road trips\, recipes\, and restaurants from California to Washington was her twenty-ninth book. She’s been lucky enough to help some of the USA’s most respected chefs\, like New York’s Michael Psilakis and Los Angeles’ Joachim Splichal\, turn their cookbook dreams into reality. Brigit now lives happily full time in California’s Central Coast wine country. Her black-and-white dog Stella and fabulous husband\, Casey (aka the Wine Spectator-award-winning Paso Wine Man)\, together make her life most eminently worth living. She can’t imagine a better place to eat\, drink\, and be married. \nRottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival is a coming-of-age memoir―co-starring Brigit’s alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother―which reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect led Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen\, eventually allowing her to find some sense of self-worth. A memoir sautéed in Hollywood stories\, world travel\, and always\, the need to belong. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Brigit or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\nEvent Registration\nFree registration via Hook & Ladder is available now. Books and wine will be available for sale and signing at the event. Only books purchased at the event are eligible for signing. \n\nAbout Hook & Ladder Winery\nHook & Ladder is an “estate” producer\, specializing in small bottlings of Pinot Noir\, “Old Vine” Zinfandel\, Chardonnay\, Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blends sourced from the family’s sustainably-farmed vineyards in Russian River Valley and its sub-appellation\, Chalk Hill. The winery also produces and sells estate-grown Olive Oil from trees grown at their Los Amigos Ranch. \n\n\nAbout Melier\nLuxury tastes shouldn’t be confined to luxury resorts. Book a Melier experience and enjoy private wine & culinary experiences from your home\, office\, or vacation rental. And when you book with Melier\, you’re directly supporting the tastemakers who are bringing their creations to life.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/brigit-binns/
LOCATION:Hook and Ladder: 2134 Olivet Road\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95401
CATEGORIES:Wine Pairing
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SUMMARY:Women in History Celebration: a Virtual Book Bingo Adventure featuring NYT bestselling and fan favorite authors Stephanie Dray\, Alix Rickloff\, Gill Paul\, Rebecca Rosenberg\, Janis Robinson Daly\, and Logan Steiner
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event:\n“The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.” –Willa Cather \nIn honor of Women’s History Month\, we are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (Women in History Celebration): a Virtual Adventure. \nIf you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 130 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \nDive into the stories of stories by and about women by playing book bingo with six New York Times bestselling and book club favorite authors: Stephanie Dray\, Alix Rickloff\, Gill Paul\, Rebecca Rosenberg\, Janis Robinson Daly\, and Logan Steiner.  Enjoy presentations by the authors\, while playing an interactive virtual game of bingo\, including fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great reads! \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information. \n\nAbout the Authors\n \nStephanie Dray is is a New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and USA Today bestselling author of historical women’s fiction. Her award-winning work has been translated into eight languages and tops lists for the most anticipated reads of the year. Now she lives in Maryland with her husband\, cats\, and history books. \nHer latest novel\, Becoming Madam Secretary\, is the captivating and richly dramatic story of Frances Perkins\, one of the greatest political figures of the twentieth century\, and an unsung heroine whose legacy is woven into the fabric of every American life. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Stephanie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\n\n \nCritically acclaimed author of historical fiction\, Alix Rickloff’s family tree includes a knight who fought during the Wars of the Roses (his brass rubbing hangs in her dining room) and a soldier who sided with Charles I during the English Civil War (hence the family’s hasty emigration to America). With inspiration like that\, what else could she do but start writing her own stories? \nHer latest novel\, The Girls in Navy Blue\, is a gripping and compelling dual timeline novel about three women who joined the Navy during WWI to become yeomanettes and the impact their choices have on one of their descendants in 1968. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Alix or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\n\n \nGill Paul is the bestselling author of twelve historical novels\, many of them about real women from the past whom she thinks have been marginalized or misjudged by historians. Her novels have reached the top of the USA Today\, Wall Street Journal\, and Toronto Globe & Mail charts\, and have been translated into twenty-two languages. \nHer latest novel\, A Beautiful Rival\, reveals the infamous rivalry of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. They could have been allies: two self-made millionaires who invented a global industry\, in an era when wife and mother were supposed to be any woman’s highest goal\, yet they became locked in a feud spanning three continents\, two world wars\, and the Great Depression.  \nTo schedule a book club visit with Gill or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\n \nRebecca Rosenberg is a lavender farmer\, champagne geek\, and award-winning author of four books. She fell in love with méthode champenoise in Sonoma\, California\, where she lives on a lavender farm with her family. Since then\, she has pursued decades of delicious research in the wine caves and cellars of France\, Spain\, Italy\, Portugal\, Argentina and California. She is a champagne historian\, tour guide and champagne cocktail creator for Breathless Wines. \nIn her new book\, Madame Pommery is surprised with a newborn at forty years old in 1860 Champagne\, France. After she is suddenly widowed and must support her family\, she starts a champagne house with no experience and invents brut champagne\, breaking society and patriarchal rules. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Rebecca or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\n\n \nIntrigued by the discovery that an ancestor was a founder of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania\, Janis Robinson Daly found her next career direction: unearthing the stories of women whose lives have remained in the shadows. With a love of history\, she balances a need for authenticity and details with a fictional flair to create deeper emotional connections to characters than what biographies provide. A graduate of Wheaton College\, MA\, with a B.A. in Psychology\, Daly explores female-centric issues and the power of supportive relationships developed among women. \nThe Unlocked Path presents and embraces a “New Woman” of the early 20th century: educated\, career-minded\, independent. In 1897 Philadelphia\, after witnessing her aunt’s suicide\, Eliza Edwards vows to find ways to help and heal. Rejecting her mother’s wishes for her society debut\, Eliza enters medical college at a time when only five percent of doctors are female. With the support of a circle of women and driven by a determination to conquer curriculum demands\, battle sexism\, and overcome doubts\, Eliza charts a new life course. Combining science and sympathy\, can she triumph to heal others and herself? \nTo schedule a book club visit with Janis or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\n\n \nLogan Steiner a lawyer by day and a writer by baby bedtime. Her writing explores motherhood and the creative life. Her debut novel\, After Anne\, was released on May 30\, 2023 by HarperCollins. For fans of Anne of Green Gables and for anyone who loves learning about the real lives of authors responsible for creating our most enduring characters\, the novel tells the life story of the author Lucy Maud Montgomery. \nAs a young woman\, Maud had dreams bigger than the whole of Prince Edward Island. Her exuberant spirit had always drawn frowns from her grandmother and their neighbors\, but she knew she was meant to create\, to capture and share the way she saw the world. And the young girl in Maud’s mind became more and more persistent: Here is my story\, she said. Here is how my name should be spelled—Anne with an “e.” Beautiful and moving\, After Anne reveals Maud’s hidden personal challenges while celebrating what was timeless about her life and art—the importance of tenacity and the peaceful refuge found in imagination. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Logan or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\n\nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or are your group of friends\, colleagues\, and family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that most\, if not all\, of the featured authors are members of our wonderful community of over 145 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/women-in-history-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Only the Beautiful: a Wine and Book Pairing Book Launch Adventure Featuring USA Today Bestselling Author Susan Meissner
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n\nUncover the dark secret of a California vineyard in WWII… \n…in the latest historical fiction novel by USA Today bestselling author Susan Meissner. Join us at Napatini Wine Bar and Bistro for a delicious glass of wine\, along with some scrumptious bite-sized snacks\, as we celebrate the paperback release of Only the Beautiful! \nYour Adventure includes a happy hour experience\, a glass of wine paired with some delicious snacks\, tax\, gratuity\, and an opportunity to meet Susan up close and personal in an intimate setting. \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nSusan Meissner is a USA Today bestselling author with more than three-quarters of a million books in readers’ hands and translations in nineteen languages. Her novels include The Nature of Fragile Things (Publishers Weekly starred review)\, The Last Year of the War (Real Simple magazine’s best books of 2019)\, As Bright as Heaven (Library Journal starred review)\, Secrets of a Charmed Life (Goodreads finalist for Best Historical Fiction 2015)\, and A Fall of Marigolds (Booklist’s Top Ten Women’s Fiction titles for 2014). \nHer latest novel\, Only the Beautiful\, is a heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter\, and the terrible injustice that tears them apart. It was named a Best Historical Fiction of Spring Pick by Amazon\, PopSugar\, AARP\, and BookBub! \nTo schedule a book club visit with Susan or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\nAbout Napatini Bistro and Wine Bar\nLynn and Gary McLean are the owner-operators of Carlsbad’s Napatini Bistro & Wine Bar. They moved to San Diego’s North County in 2019 from the San Francisco Bay Area\, where they lived very close to California Wine Country. Long story made short: This is a bucket list to-do for Lynn & Gary! “We wanted a wine experience. Our friends and we thought of all the great times we had at wine tasting rooms in Wine Country. \n“We thought that if we were ever given the opportunity\, we would try to mimic that wine-tasting room experience- at least as much as practical- by opening a wine bar\, minus elaborate decor. After hitting a number of challenges we opened in December 2022!”
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/susan-meissner-3-5-24/
LOCATION:Napatini Bistro and Wine Bar 3800 State St #100 Carlsbad\, CA 92008
CATEGORIES:Event,Happy Hour Adventures,SoCal Adventures
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240225T130000
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SUMMARY:Reading Between the Vines: a Wine & Book Pairing Adventure featuring Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jan Moran
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\n“Language is wine upon the lips” – Virginia Woolf\nVirginia Woolf made the connection between language and wine\, so we wanted to take a page from her and create an entire Adventures by the Book series devoted to the pairing of wine and books. Voila! Introducing our new Reading Between the Vines series to take place at the estate producer Hook & Ladder Winery\, 2134 Olivet Rd\, Santa Rosa\, in Sonoma County\, California! \nWith the assistance of Melier\, indulge in a leisurely morning filled with a sumptuous wine tasting and book pairing experience\, presented under California’s brilliant trademark sunshine. While you sample some of the delectable wines that Hook & Ladder Winery is known for\, meet Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jan Moran and learn about her most recent novel\, The Winemakers. \nYour Adventure includes a glass of Hook & Ladder sparkling wine specifically selected to pair with Jan’s book\, pastries\, a signed hardcover copy of The Winemakers\, author presentation\, Q&A\, book signing\, and the opportunity to meet the author in a relaxed and intimate setting at the beautiful Hook & Ladder Winery property. \n\n\nAbout the Author\nJan Moran is a 9-time USA Today and 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of heartwarming fiction\, including the feel-good\, contemporary beach read series of Summer Beach\, Coral Cottage\, Crown Island\, and Love California. Her riveting\, immersive historical family sagas include Hepburn’s Necklace\, The Chocolatier\, and The Perfumer. \nThe Winemakers is a sweeping\, romantic novel about both the beauty and secrets of a family inheritance that will hold you in its grasp until the last delicious sip. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jan or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n  \nEvent Registration\nFree registration via Hook & Ladder is available now. Books and wine will be available for sale and signing at the event. Only books purchased at the event are eligible for signing. \n\n\n\nAbout Hook & Ladder Winery\nHook & Ladder is an “estate” producer\, specializing in small bottlings of Pinot Noir\, “Old Vine” Zinfandel\, Chardonnay\, Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blends sourced from the family’s sustainably-farmed vineyards in Russian River Valley and its sub-appellation\, Chalk Hill. The winery also produces and sells estate-grown Olive Oil from trees grown at their Los Amigos Ranch. \n\nAbout Melier\nLuxury tastes shouldn’t be confined to luxury resorts. Book a Melier experience and enjoy private wine & culinary experiences from your home\, office\, or vacation rental. And when you book with Melier\, you’re directly supporting the tastemakers who are bringing their creations to life.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jan-moran-2-25-24/
LOCATION:Hook and Ladder: 2134 Olivet Road\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95401
CATEGORIES:Wine Pairing
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240218T150000
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SUMMARY:Super Book V: a San Diego Adventure with 20 New York Times and bestselling authors
DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In-Person Adventure\n\nIt’s kickoff time! No\, we aren’t talking about Super Bowl; we are talking about Super Book V\, and you are invited! \nJoin our team of 20 renowned authors\, including our keynote half-time speakers\, who will give book enthusiasts and reading fans the experience of a lifetime\, complete with four quarters of excitement\, crowd-pleasing food\, and so much more\, scheduled to take place on Sunday\, February 18\, 2024 at: \nAdmiral Baker Golf Course Clubhouse\, 2400 Admiral Baker Rd #3604\, San Diego\, CA 92124 \nAnd of course\, no Adventure by the Book would be complete without lots of excitement and fun\, and… \n\nDaylong Adventure featuring up to 20 New York Times and bestselling authors\nCustom Super Book tote bag\nContinental breakfast\nCrowd-pleasing gourmet lunch\nCollectible event program\nSeating at lunch tables with an author\nVIP option available to seat with your favorite author (limited availability)\nMultiple book signing autographing opportunities with all authors\nPhoto ops with authors\nMeet and greet opportunities with the authors\nBooks provided for sale and signing\nFour quarters of author activities\nHalf-time presentation\nDiscounted block of hotel rooms*\nFun prizes and giveaways\n…and much more\n\nRegistration\nCheck out our amazing SuperBook V lineup\, and snag your tickets now to be part of the fun! \n*Discounted Hotel Rooms\nA limited number of discounted hotel rooms are now available at Marriott Mission Valley. \nHalf-Time Presentation\nSan Diego native Georgeanne “George” Irvine has devoted her career to raising awareness about animals and wildlife conservation. She is the director of publishing for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance\, where she has worked for more than 45 years\, as well as the author of nearly 30 children’s books about wildlife. Her award-winning Hope & Inspiration collection features true stories about individual animals from the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park that have overcome challenges in their lives. Her newest books is Amazing Omeo: A Baby Koala’s True Story of Survival. \nPrior to publishing\, George served in many capacities during her tenure with the Zoo–she worked in public relations and marketing as well as philanthropy. Her duties ranged from being a media spokesperson to escorting celebrities around the Zoo and animals to television shows (such as Johnny Carson’s “Tonight” show) to creating collateral that helped the Zoo raise millions of dollars each year for conservation and new habitats. \nMajor passions for George include traveling\, photography\, storytelling\, Broadway musicals and\, of course\, wildlife. She lives for adventure travel and loves seeing animals in their native habitats. Her worldwide expeditions have taken her to many of the wildest places on earth—from the jungles of Borneo and South America to the mountains of China and the forests of India to the Outback of Australia and the savannas of Africa. She also enjoys spending time in Alaska’s wild places to observe and photograph brown bears and other North American wildlife. \nJoining George will be the zany Dr. Zoolittle\, who will entertain with a fun interactive presentation sharing stories\, jokes\, poems\, songs\, and interesting facts about wildlife. Together\, the dynamic Zoo duo is sure to capture your hearts and make you laugh with animal tales that inspire a passion for wildlife conservation and education. \nAuthor Preview\nBrigit Binns is the author or co-author of 25 cookbooks\, many of them for Williams-Sonoma\, as well as ghost-writer on many others. During the ten years she spent living in Europe\, Brigit graduated from England’s Tante Marie cooking school\, lived and catered in Spain for three years\, and edited the Costa del Sol’s English-language magazine. Brigit’s cookbook Eating Up the West Coast: The best road trips\, recipes\, and restaurants from California to Washington was her twenty-ninth book. Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival is a coming-of-age memoir―co-starring Brigit’s alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother―which reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect led Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen\, eventually allowing her to find some sense of self-worth. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Brigit or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nJeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of 3 novels and an Emmy award-winning television director. In his latest novel\, Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way\, after a highly publicized fall from grace\, James Henry Ferguson attempts to flee from the chaos in his life. He ends up in a community he had never heard of before\, a place of abject poverty\, the neighborhood is commonly referred to as “Around the Way.” A self-identified failure is forced to uncover the wisdom of his past in order to recognize that money can’t solve every problem. Full of never-ending twists and turns\, no one can prepare themselves for the surprises in store. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jeffrey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nKathi Diamant is an actress\, author\, TV producer/anchor and adjunct professor at San Diego State University. Since 1998\, she has directed the Kafka Project at SDSU\, the official international search for Kafka’s lost writings stolen by the Gestapo in Berlin in 1933. Her award-winning book Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant is the first biography of the woman who was literary giant Franz Kafka’s last love\, and the woman accused of burning his work. This novel received critical acclaim internationally\, won the Geisel Award\, the “Best of the Best” in the San Diego Book Awards\, and has been published in a dozen editions\, including translations in French\, German\, Spanish\, Russian\, Chinese\, Portuguese\, Turkish and more. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kathi or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nPiper G. Huguley is a literature professor at Clark-Atlanta University and blogs about the history behind her novels at http://piperhuguley.com. She lives in Atlanta\, Georgia with her husband and son. Her biographical historical fiction\, By Her Own Design: a Novel of Ann Lowe\, Fashion Designer to the Social Register (William Morrow Publishing) tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022 and was named one of the top 100 books of 2022 in Canada by the Globe and Mail newspaper. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Piper or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nSusannah Kennedy is a Berkeley- and Oxford-educated anthropologist with extensive travel experience. Reading Jane\, her award-winning memoir\, explores the hidden diaries that her mother left behind before committing suicide\, and offers a vivid study of narratives\, the power of parenthood\, and what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Susannah or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nTosca Lee is the award-winning\, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Between\, The Progeny\, Firstborn\, Iscariot\, The Legend of Sheba\, Demon: A Memoir\, Havah: The Story of Eve\, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker. She is the recipient of two International Book Awards\, Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion\, ECPA Book of the Year in Fiction\, and the Nebraska Book Award. Her work has finaled for the High Plains Book Award\, the Library of Virginia Reader’s Choice Award\, two Christy Awards\, and a second ECPA Book of the Year. Inspired by true stories\, her new book\, The Long March Home\, is a gripping coming-of-age tale of friendship\, sacrifice\, and the power of unrelenting hope. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Tosca or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nJeffrey Dale Lofton calls the nation’s capital home\, where he serves as a senior advisor at the Library of Congress\, surrounded by books and people who love books—in short\, paradise. His debut novel Red Clay Suzie tells the story of Philbet\, a gay boy enraptured by cars\, who struggles with body-blow rejection to find resolution in life lessons learned in Grandaddy’s vegetable garden. Red Clay Suzie is the recipient of the Seven Hills Literary Prize for Fiction and was recently longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jeffrey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nRobin Oliveira grew up just outside Albany\, New York in the town of Loudonville. She holds a B.A. in Russian from the University of Montana\, and studied at the Pushkin Language Institute in Moscow\, Russia. She worked for many years as a Registered Nurse\, specializing in Critical Care and Bone Marrow Transplant. In 2006 she received an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her new novel\, A Wild and Heavenly Place\, is an ode to the Pacific Northwest\, to those courageous and resilient enough to chase the American Dream\, and to a love so powerful it endures beyond distance\, beyond hope. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Robin or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nShelley Read taught writing\, literature\, environmental studies\, and Honors\, and was a founder of the interdisciplinary Environment & Sustainability major\, the Prague study abroad program\, and a support program for first-generation and at-risk students as an award-winning Senior Lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades. Her debut novel\, Go as a River\, set amid Colorado’s wild beauty\, is a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic\, uplifting novel of love and loss\, place and displacement\, prejudice and family\, wilderness and survival—and hope. \nRenée Rosen is a USA Today bestselling author. Her novels include The Social Graces\, Park Avenue Summer\, Windy City Blues\, White Collar Girl\, What the Lady Wants and Dollface as well as the young adult novel\, Every Crooked Pot. She is currently working on a new novel about the Barbie doll creator\, Ruth Handler\, coming from Penguin Random House/Berkley in 2025. In Renée’s dazzling new novel\, Fifth Avenue Glamor Girl\, it’s 1938\, and a young woman selling face cream out of a New York City beauty parlor is determined to prove she can have it all. Her name is Estée Lauder\, and she’s about to take the world by storm. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Renee or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nDeborah Goodrich Royce began her career as an actress\, starring as Silver Kane\, sister of the legendary Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci) on the ABC soap\, All My Children. She went on to star in feature films such as April Fool’s Day and Just One of the Guys\, TV movies such as Return to Peyton Place and The Deliberate Stranger\, and series such as Beverly Hills 90210 and 21 Jump Street. In her novel\, Reef Road\, a young woman’s life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics. What each of them stands to lose as they sneak around the do-not-enter tape blocking Reef Road beach is exposed by the steady tightening of the cincture encircling them. In a nod to the true crime that inspired it\, Deborah Goodrich Royce’s Reef Road probes unhealed generational scars in a wrenching and original work of fiction. It is both stunning and sexy and\, like a bystander surprised by a curtain left open\, you won’t be able to look away. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Deborah or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nRenee Ryan is a multi-published\, award-winning author who sold her first book in 2001 by winning the inaugural Dorchester/Romantic Times New Historical Voice Contest. She published her second book with Harlequin in February 2009 and has since sold over thirty books to several publishers. Her new novel\, The Paris Housekeeper\, is a powerful and moving story of bravery and resilience in World War II Paris\, and about one woman who must face impossible choices to survive. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Renee or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nHeather Webb is the USA Today-bestselling and award-winning author of eight historical novels. In 2015\, Rodin’s Lover was a Goodreads Top Pick\, and in 2018\, Last Christmas in Paris won the Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award. Her latest book\, Queens of London\, is a look at Britain’s first female crime syndicate\, the ever-shifting meaning of justice\, and the way women claim their power by any means necessary. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Heather or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nKaren White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 34 books\, with almost two million books in print in fifteen different languages\, including the Tradd Street series\, The Last Night in London\, Dreams of Falling\, The Night the Lights Went Out\, Flight Patterns\, The Sound of Glass\, and A Long Time Gone. She is the coauthor of The Lost Summers of Newport\, All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. A woman is haunted—both literally and figuratively—by ghosts of the past in her second novel of the Royal Street series\, The House on Prytania. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Karen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nBeatriz Williams is the New York Times\, USA Today\, and internationally bestselling author of Our Woman in Moscow\, The Summer Wives\, Her Last Flight\, The Golden Hour\, The Secret Life of Violet Grant\, A Hundred Summers\, and several other works of historical fiction\, including three novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards\, have been translated into more than a dozen languages\, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world. Her book\, The Beach at Summerly\, is a ravishing summer read that transports readers to a midcentury New England rich with secrets and Cold War intrigue. \nLauren Willig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty works of historical fiction\, including Band of Sisters\, The Summer Country\, The English Wife\, the RITA Award-winning Pink Carnation series\, and four novels co-written with Beatriz Williams and Karen White. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages\, picked for Book of the Month Club\, awarded the RITA\, Booksellers Best\, and Golden Leaf awards\, and chosen for the American Library Association’s annual list of the best genre fiction. Two Wars and a Wedding is a dramatic coming-of-age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine—a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic. \nKitty Zeldis is the pen name of a Brooklyn based author of nine novels\, numerous essays\, articles and works of short fiction as well as forty books for children. She lives with her family in Brooklyn\, NY. Moving from the bustling streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan to late 19th century Russia and the lively quarters of New Orleans\, her new novel\, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights\, is a story of female friendship\, the families we are born with and the families we make\, and how some bonds can be tested but never broken. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kitty or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nAbout Our Special Guest\nCasey Biggs is the perfect award-winning Paso Wine Man: attractive\, impressive\, convincing and internationally famous. He lives in Paso Robles (California)\, a country known for its world-class wines and wineries. Casey becomes and performs the Paso Wine Man\, the face of the Paso Roble wine country\, in many marketing videos for the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance. \nCasey Biggs as the Paso Wine Man got the reward “Wine Person of Excellence Award (Winter to Spring 2014)” for being “the most interesting Wine Person of Excellence in the world” from the Wine Consumer Seal of Excellence. \n\nOur team can’t wait to see you there!
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CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures,SuperBook Weekend
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SUMMARY:Bold\, Brave\, and Black: a free Carlsbad Library Adventure featuring bestselling authors Jeffrey Blount and Piper Huguley
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right\, temporarily defeated\, is stronger than evil triumphant.”\n—Martin Luther King\, Jr. \nWe invite you to celebrate Black History Month with us at a special event featuring two talented and award-winning authors\, Jeffrey Blount and Piper Huguley. Join us at this free Carlsbad City Library Adventure for an afternoon of lively discussion where you have the opportunity to meet two talented authors and hear about their experiences\, their books\, and to help pay tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in America\, while continuing to recognize the importance of Black history in the drama of the American story. \n\nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. However\, copies of Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way and By Her Own Design are available for pre-order below\, and they will be delivered to the event for signing. Books will be also be available for purchase and signing at the event. \nAbout the Authors\n \nJeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of Almost Snow White\, Hating Heidi Foster\, and The Emancipation of Evan Walls. In his latest novel\, Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way\, James Henry Ferguson attempts to flee from his highly publicized fall from grace\, only to make a troubling discovery in his new town that forces him to confront his past. Full of never-ending twists and turns\, this novel is full of surprises that no one could predict. \n“Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way is a thoughtfully written\, thought-provoking\, complacency-smashing novel of redemption and restoration\, and a testament to the truth that it is in lifting up others that we ourselves are lifted up.”—Marie Bostwick\, NYT and USA Today bestselling author of Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jeffrey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nNamed in 2015 as a top ten historical romance novelist byPublisher’s Weekly\, Piper Huguley is the author of the Reconstruction-era Home to Milford College series. She is a 2013 and 2014 Golden Heart finalist for two novels in the Migrations of the Heart series about the Bledsoe sisters in the early twentieth century. \nPiper’s biographical historical fiction\, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe\, Fashion Designer to the Social Register tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022 and was named one of the top 100 books of 2022 in Canada by the Globe and Mail newspaper. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Piper or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\nAbout Carlsbad City Library\n\n\n\n\nCarlsbad City Library provides community members of all ages with convenient access to high-quality resources and services to inform and enrich individual and community life. Carlsbad City Library is the destination for information\, enjoyment of reading\, lifelong learning\, and cultural enrichment for those who live\, work and play in Carlsbad.
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LOCATION:Carlsbad City Library\, 1775 Dove Lane\, Carlsbad\, CA\, 92011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures
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SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 2): a FREE in-person series featuring award-winning historian and NYT bestselling author Elizabeth Cobbs
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2024 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet seven bestselling and fan-favorite authors: Beth Ann Mathews\, Elizabeth Cobbs\, Elizabeth L. Silver\, Carl Vonderau\, Jesse Leon\, Madhushree Ghosh and Mona Gable. \nPart 2 – Just in time for to commemorate President’s Day\, join award-winning historian and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Cobbs to discuss her book on feminist patriots\, Fearless Women. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\n\nPART 2 featuring Elizabeth Cobbs: Wednesday\, February 7\, 1:00 pm Pacific (note the date and time change for this event only) \nPART 3 featuring Carl Vonderau: Monday\, May 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Elizabeth L. Silver: Monday\, June 10\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Jesse Leon: Monday\, September 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 6 featuring Madhushree Ghosh: Monday\, October 28\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 7 featuring Mona Gable: Monday\, November 4\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n\n\nPart 2: Elizabeth Cobbs\n\n \nElizabeth Cobbs is an award-winning historian who brings fresh\, unexpected perspectives to our understanding of the past and present. Building upon worldwide archival research and her own extraordinary life experiences\, Elizabeth writes best selling  fiction and non-fiction that is both scholarly and witty. Her path-breaking books\, articles\, and documentary films reveal a world that is as intriguing and surprising as it is real. Elizabeth earned her Ph.D. in American history at Stanford University. She now holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair at Texas A&M University. Her books have won four literary prizes\, two for American history and two for fiction\, and she has won four prizes for documentary filmmaking. \nWhen America became a nation\, a woman had no legal existence beyond her husband. If he abused her\, she couldn’t leave without abandoning her children. Abigail Adams tried to change this\, reminding her husband John to “remember the ladies” when he wrote the Constitution. He simply laughed―and women have been fighting for their rights ever since. Fearless Women tells the story of women who dared to take destiny into their own hands. They were feminists and antifeminists\, activists and homemakers\, victims of abuse and pathbreaking professionals. Inspired by the nation’s ideals and fueled by an unshakeable sense of right and wrong\, they wouldn’t take no for an answer. In time\, they carried the country with them. \n\n\n\nPart 3: Carl Vonderau\n\n \n\nCarl Vonderau is an award-winning author of crime fiction. As a child growing up in Cleveland\, he loved to write. His ghost stories scared the bejesus out of other kids. But it took a long time to become a full-time author. He left Cleveland to study at Stanford\, then spent more than thirty years as a banker in the U.S.\, Latin America\, and North Africa. Those international settings were sources of inspiration for his books. He is the president of Partners in Crime\, The San Diego chapter of the Sisters in Crime organization of authors and fans of crime writing. Additionally\, he’s a partner at San Diego Social Venture Partners\, an organization that mentors other nonprofits.His first novel\, Murderabilia\, was published in 2019 and won a Left Coast Crime award for Best Debut\, and a San Diego Book award for Best Mystery. \nHis second novel\, Saving Myles\, follows an unassuming banker from La Jolla\, CA as he takes matters into his own hands in order to save his kidnapped son and bring him home. \nPart 4: Elizabeth Silver\n\n\nElizabeth L. Silver is the author of The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty\, and Amazon Best Book of the Year The Execution of Noa P. Singleton. Her work has been called “masterful” by The Wall Street Journal\, has been published in 7 languages\, and optioned for film. The Tincture of Time was featured on PBS and NPR\, and was an O Magazine/Oprah’s “Ten Books to Pick up Now.” \nHer new novel\, The Majority\, is a riveting novel of love and friendship\, motherhood and ambition\, and one woman’s fight to be a Supreme Court justice. Covering the span of fifty years\, Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein’s personal account reveals the intimate truth about a woman who is not just a brilliant mind but a daughter\, a best friend\, a wife\, and a mother. Caught in a tug-of-war between career and family\, truth and convenience\, progress and patience\, she will be given a chance to change the course of American history. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elizabeth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n  \n\nPart 5: Jesse Leon\n \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. \nJesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. “A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives\, bodhisattvas all.” \nPart 6: Madhushree Ghosh\n \nMadhushree Ghosh has written prolifically on how food—especially South Asian food—travels globally though immigration\, migration and indenture. As the daughter of refugees and an immigrant to America\, food stories inform her about the history of her people\, how they traveled and what happened to them when they held onto recipes\, let go or modified them over countries\, continents and generations. Her work has been a Notable Mention in Best American Essays in Food Writing\, Pushcart nominated and published in The New York Times\, Vogue India\, Washington Post\, LA Times\, The Writer\, Longreads\, Catapult\, BOMB\, Guernica\, LA Review of Books\, LitHub and others. She is an invited workshop leader at conferences and workshops such as Grub Street Writers\, Encinitas Writers Workshop\, San Diego Memoir Writers’ Workshop and others. \nHer debut food narrative memoir\,\, was published in 2022 by the University of Iowa Press to great acclaim. KHABAAR focuses on chefs\, home cooks\, and food stall owners\, and the author’s own immigrant journey as the daughter of refugees\, questioning what it means to belong and what does “belonging” in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. \nPart 7: Mona Gable\n \nMona Gable is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Outside\, AFAR\, the Los Angeles Times\, and many others. Her article in Los Angeles magazine\, “The Hugo Problem\,” was named a Longreads Best of 2015. Since 1990\, she has written about social issues\, culture\, and politics for the Los Angeles Times. Gable grew up in San Diego\, California\, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her memoir\, “Blood Brother: The Gene That Rocked My Family\,” was published in 2014 by Shebooks. \nHer new novel\, Searching for Savanna\, arose out of a story she wrote for the late Pacific Standard magazine. It is a gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant\, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction. \nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave
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LOCATION:Point Loma Library 3701 Voltaire Street San Diego\, CA 92107
CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:PitchFest: a FREE "Choose Your 2024 Reads" virtual Zoom Adventure with 21 fan-favorite authors
DESCRIPTION:About PitchFest\n\nAre you so overwhelmed with the dazzling array of books published each year that you have a difficult time choosing your next read? Whether you are part of a book club\, a library\, other reading group\, or an individual reader who could use a little assistance in helping you choose your 2024 reads\, allow us to Pitch in and help you decide with Pitchfest: a FREE Choose Your 2024 Reads Virtual Adventure. \nRing in the New Year by meeting an incredible lineup of 21 fan-favorite authors\, including New York Times\, international\, and bestselling authors\, as well as authors you may be meeting for the first time. We will even provide you with a Pitchfest “cheat sheet” with information about the authors and their new book releases\, and a section for you to take notes during the presentation (emailed the week of the event). \nAnd\, there will be book giveaways\, so you won’t want to miss it! \nTo top it all off\, there’s even more great news: a little birdie told us that all 21 authors are part of NovelNetwork\, meaning that every single one of them is available to meet with your book club\, library\, or reading group to chat about their incredible new books. Visit NovelNetwork or click on the direct links below to schedule an author visit now and avoid the rush\, or plan a visit with your favorites after Pitchfest. \nYour FREE Adventure includes 21 fast-paced and fun presentations by all 21 authors that are sure to help you choose your 2024 reads. You’ll also have the opportunity to Q&A the authors when you meet them virtually via Zoom. \n\nBook Pre-Orders\nBooks are available for pre-order below at the bottom of this page.  Please note some titles below have not yet been published\, so you will receive your book(s) once they have been published. \n  \nRegistration\nThis event is FREE and open to the public. Simply select the Free PitchFest Registration (1/25/24) option below and a Zoom link and a Pitchfest Cheat Sheet will be emailed to you 3 days before the event. \n  \nAbout the Authors\nSara Ackerman is a USA Today bestselling author whose novels have been praised by Apple Books and Book Riot\, with Amazon choosing Radar Girls as a best book of the month and ALA Booklist giving The Codebreaker’s Secret a starred review. Her latest novel\, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West\, follows the harrowing journey of a young pilot in 1927\, along with the woman who vows to learn Olivia’s story decades later. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Sara or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nCara Black is the author of twenty-one books in the New York Times-bestselling Aimée Leduc series. The latest entry\, Murder at La Villette\, sees Leduc framed for the murder of her daughter’s father\, which starts her journey to find the real killer. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Cara or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nJeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of Almost Snow White\, Hating Heidi Foster\, and The Emancipation of Evan Walls. In his latest novel\, Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way\, James Henry Ferguson attempts to flee from his highly publicized fall from grace\, only to make a troubling discovery in his new town that forces him to confront his past. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jeffrey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nMichelle Cox is the author of the multiple award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series\, as well as “Novel Notes of Local Lore\,” a weekly blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents. Her books have been praised by Kirkus\, Library Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, Booklist\, and many others. Her latest novel\, The Fallen Woman’s Daughter\, tells the story of two young girls in the 1930s who are torn from their mother and placed in the cruel Park Ridge School for Girls. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Michelle or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nNicola Harrison is a historical fiction author whose previous novels include Montauk and The Show Girl. Her latest novel\, Hotel Laguna\, follows Hazel Francis as she moves to California in 1942 to help with the war effort\, only to feel displaced when the war ends and women are forced back into traditional roles. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Nicola or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nKatherine Howe is an award-winning\, New York Times-bestselling historian and novelist. She is the author of several novels for adults and young adults\, has edited two volumes of primary sources for Penguin Classics\, and is the co-author with Anderson Cooper of the #1 New York Times-bestselling books Vanderbilt and Astor. The Penguin Book of Pirates is her latest work\, a compilation she put together of trial transcripts\, journalism\, ship logs\, and more to paint a fascinating picture of real maritime marauders. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Katherine or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nSusannah Kennedy is a Berkeley- and Oxford-educated anthropologist with extensive travel experience. Reading Jane\, her award-winning memoir\, explores the hidden diaries that her mother left behind before committing suicide\, and offers a vivid study of narratives\, the power of parenthood\, and what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Susannah or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nRobert Kerbeck is the author of Malibu Burning: The Real Story Behind LA’s Most Devastating Wildfire\, which won the 2020 IPPY Award as the Silver Medalist in Creative Nonfiction\, the Readers’ Favorite Award as the Silver Medalist in Nonfiction Drama\, and the Best of LA award. His newest memoir\, RUSE: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street\, is a thrilling look into the world of corporate espionage and his career as a secret spy. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Robert or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nIn Judith Lindbergh’s novel\, Akmaral\, a woman warrior on the ancient Asian steppes must make peace with making war. Inspired by Greek myths of Amazon warriors and modern archaeology that proves that they were real\, Akmaral follows one woman’s struggle through loyalty\, love\, and loss to become a leader of her people. Her acclaimed debut\, The Thrall’s Tale\, about women in Viking Age Greenland\, was an IndieBound Pick and praised by Pulitzer Prize winners Geraldine Brooks and Robert Olen Butler. She contributed to the Smithsonian’s exhibition Vikings: The Norse Atlantic Saga and was an expert commentator on the History Channel’s documentary series MANKIND. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Judith or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nBeth Ann Mathews is a marine biologist with expertise in behavioral ecology and marine mammalogy. Her memoir\, Deep Waters\, tells the story of how her sailing adventures got upended when her husband suffered a rare kind of stroke. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Beth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nKristina McMorris is the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and USA Today bestselling author of Letters from Home\, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves\, The Pieces We Keep\, The Edge of Lost\, and the million-copy bestseller Sold on a Monday. Her latest work\, Ellie Mae Dreams Big\, is a children’s book about a young girl envisioning her future. It was illustrated by her award-winning sister in their collaborative debut. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kristina or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nAmy Meyerson is the bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays and The Imperfects whose books have been translated into eleven languages. Her third novel\, The Love Scribe\, follows a writer named Alice who discovers her romantic stories can make love manifest in real life. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Amy or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nRobin Oliveira is the author of My Name is Mary Sutter\, I Always Loved You\, and Winter Sisters. Her latest novel is A Wild and Heavenly Place\, which tells the story of well-off Hailey MacIntyre and her unlikely romance with starving Samuel Fiddes\, set against the backdrop of the birth of Seattle. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Robin or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nKaren E. Osborne is the award-winning\, Kindle-bestselling author of Getting It Right\, Tangled Lies\, and Reckonings. Her latest book is True Grace\, her first historical fiction novel. Set in 1924 during the Harlem Renaissance and Roaring Twenties\, True Grace chronicles the journey of an immigrant\, mixed-raced woman from The Congo\, England\, and Jamaica who has to fight for her family’s survival. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Karen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nAimie K. Runyan is a bestselling author and educator whose novels include Promised to the Crown\, Duty to the Crown\, and Promised to the Night Sky. In a break from the historical fiction she is known for\, her latest novel\, The Memory of Lavender and Sage\, follows food critic Tempèsta Luddington as she learns about her late mother’s legacy in a small village in Provence. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Aimie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nRenee Ryan is an award-winning historical fiction writer whose novels include Journey’s End\, The Windows of Champagne\, and The Secret Society of Salzburg. Her latest novel is The Paris Housekeeper\, in which a hotel chambermaid named Camille Lacroix fights for survival in Nazi-occupied Paris. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Renee or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nSusie Orman Schnall is the author of five novels about ambitious women: On Grace\, The Balance Project\, The Subway Girls\, We Came Here to Shine\, and her latest\, Anna Bright is Hiding Something. Set in the glossy offices of Silicon Valley startups and New York City new media\, the story of Anna Bright follows an ambitious young businesswoman who does whatever it takes to succeed–including fraud. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Susie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nKate Thompson is the author of the non-fiction social history The Stepney Doorstep Society\, though she is best known for her historical fiction about remarkable libraries in World War II. In her latest novel\, The Wartime Book Club\, a librarian named Grace La Mottée defies orders to destroy books on the Nazi-occupied island of Jersey. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kate or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nJulia Park Tracey is the author of Tongues of Angels\, Veronika Layne Gets the Scoop\, and Veronika Layne Has a Nose for News. In addition to her historical fiction novels\, she is an award-winning journalist\, essayist\, and poet. Her latest book\, The Bereaved\, tells the story of her third great-grandmother Martha\, a poor widow\, and the choices she made to survive with four hungry children as the Civil War erupted around her. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Julia or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nHeather Webb is the USA Today-bestselling and award-winning author of eight historical novels. In 2015\, Rodin’s Lover was a Goodreads Top Pick\, and in 2018\, Last Christmas in Paris won the Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award. Her latest book\, Queens of London\, is a look at Britain’s first female crime syndicate\, the ever-shifting meaning of justice\, and the way women claim their power by any means necessary. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Heather or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nKitty Zeldis is the pen name of a Brooklyn-based author of nine novels and forty books for children. Her latest book\, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights\, explores the lives of three very different Brooklyn women in 1924\, as New York reels from the losses of both World War I and the deadly influenza epidemic. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kitty or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/pitchfest_1-25-24/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Interviewology: a virtual Strategies for Success Adventure with CEO\, Author\, and Career Influencer Anna Papalia
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual Adventure\n\nFor over 13 years\, Adventures by the Book has been offering our signature one-of-a-kind\, multi-sensorial events and travels with authors. That’s because when it comes to connecting people and communities with books\, we mean business! \nAnd now\, we are taking that mission quite literally and are thrilled to welcome you to join the next in our new Adventures by the Book Means Business series\, offering you the opportunity to meet some of the greatest minds in the business world. \n \nAnd speaking of the greatest minds in business\, we invite you to meet Anna Papalia\, career influencer and CEO of Interviewology\, on the Strategies for Success (SFS) Network\, presented by MasterClass\, on Fireside. Anna will be joined in conversation on the virtual Fireside platform with SFS founders and hosts Falon Fatemi and Greg McBeth\, as this brilliant trio discuss Anna’s new book\, Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing\, a groundbreaking guide to mastering the job interviews. \nRegistration\nRegister for free\, or if you want the VIP treatment which allows you the exclusive opportunity to chat or ask questions live with Anna\, Greg\, and Falon during the program (as well as with future high profile speakers and authors)\, including coaching and giveaways and much more\, check out their exciting SFS Network membership plan. \nWhile this Adventure is free\, you can purchase a hardcover copy of Interviewology below\, to be shipped to you within the U.S. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nAnna Papalia is the CEO of Interviewology\, a keynote speaker\, and a career influencer with over 1.5 million followers across social media platforms.  She has worked with large companies\, such as Cigna and Lincoln Financial\, and taught at Temple University’s Fox School of Business for 12 years\, where she collected research and discovered the four interview styles. \nAs a former Director of Talent Acquisition turned career coach\, she has vast experience on both sides of the interview table and knows what it takes to interview better. She has advised more than 10\,000 clients\, helping students\, entrepreneurs\, senior executives\, and job seekers in all industries\, and taught hundreds of corporate training sessions dedicated to training hiring managers how to interview. Nominated for HR Person of the Year in 2020\, she is also a public speaker at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and DisruptHR\, and is a highly sought-after thought leader on all things interviewing. \nIn her new book\, Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing\, Anna offers proven advice and techniques to discover your unique interview style that is key to interviewing better—for those on either side of the table. Packed with wisdom\, this book gives clarity and a dynamic\, scientifically validated approach that challenges everything you thought you knew about interviewing\, providing unique insight into the process\, debunking some of the most common myths\, and explaining how you can perform better\, whether you’re applying for the job or looking for the right candidate. \nGoing beyond generic advice that isn’t useful in the real world—such as memorizing rote answers or strict guidelines—Interviewology is a revolutionary approach that focuses on self-awareness—and how to develop it—to help everyone master their own unique interview style. It’s about the power of knowing yourself and how that insight can lead to a more successful career and life. \n  \n\n\nAbout the Moderators and SFS Network\n\n\n \nWith the SFS Network\, serial entrepreneurs and husband and wife team Greg McBeth and Falon Fatemi are bringing together leaders with expertise across life\, love\, and business\, in order to discuss and learn what it takes to find success in all three areas. \nConversations are interactive and explore personal successes and failures\, including from Greg and Falon’s own lives\, and deep dive into the skills and habits required to achieve consistent success. Join this first-of-its-kind community to connect and win together. \nGreg and Falon are both serial entrepreneurs and CEO’s (of Melier and Fireside\, respectively)\, who have held leadership roles at companies ranging from early startups to Fortune 100’s. Collectively\, they have raised more than $100 million in venture funding across AI\, B2B\, Consumer Software\, Media\, and Food and Hospitality\, and helped grow billion dollar private and public companies. \nThey’ve also hired and led teams of world-class operators\, generated hundreds of million in revenue for businesses\, sold companies\, and even had a hand at making a few marriages. \nGreg and Falon have been married for over eight years. Today\, their marriage is stronger than ever and they are expecting their first child. They currently split their time between Napa Valley and Miami. \n\n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/anna-papalia-1-24-24/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat
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SUMMARY:Reading Between the Vines: a Wine & Book Pairing Adventure featuring New York Times and international bestselling author Heather Morris
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n“Language is wine upon the lips” – Virginia Woolf\nVirginia Woolf made the connection between language and wine\, so we wanted to take a page from her and create an entire Adventures by the Book series devoted to the pairing of wine and books. Voila! Join us for our next event in the Reading Between the Vines series\, which will take place once again at the estate producer Hook & Ladder Winery\, 2134 Olivet Rd\, Santa Rosa\, in Sonoma County\, California\, as part of their exciting new Book & Ladder Club! \nWith the assistance of Melier\, we invite you to indulge in a bubbles tasting and book pairing experience\, presented under California’s brilliant trademark sunshine. While you sample a delectable glass of Hook & Ladder Winery bubbles and light pastries\, meet New York Times and international bestselling author Heather Morris and learn about her latest novel\, Sisters Under the Rising Sun. \nYour Adventure includes a glass of Hook & Ladder bubbles specifically selected to pair with Heather’s book\, a signed hardcover copy of Sisters Under the Rising Sun\, fresh pastries\, author presentation\, Q&A\, book signing\, and the opportunity to meet the author in a relaxed and intimate setting at the beautiful Hook & Ladder Winery property. \n\nAbout the Author\n \nHeather Morris is the Australian-based\, multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz\, Cilka’s Journey\, and Three Sisters. Her work has been praised by the New York Times\, Publisher’s Weekly\, and many others. \nHer latest novel\, Sisters Under the Rising Sun\, tells the story of two incredible women\, Norah Chambers and Nesta James\, who are held captive in a notorious POW camp by the Japanese during World War II. Woman’s Own calls the novel “an earth-shattering read.” \n\nEvent Registration\nRegistration via Hook & Ladder is coming soon. The first thirty people to register will receive a FREE copy of Sisters Under the Rising Sun. You may also pre-order an additional copy below of Sisters Under the Rising Sun to be delivered at the event for signing. Only books purchased below or at the event are eligible for signing. \n\nAbout Hook & Ladder Winery\nHook & Ladder is an “estate” producer\, specializing in small bottlings of Pinot Noir\, “Old Vine” Zinfandel\, Chardonnay\, Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blends sourced from the family’s sustainably-farmed vineyards in Russian River Valley and its sub-appellation\, Chalk Hill. The winery also produces and sells estate-grown Olive Oil from trees grown at their Los Amigos Ranch. \n\n\nAbout Melier\nLuxury tastes shouldn’t be confined to luxury resorts. Book a Melier experience and enjoy private wine & culinary experiences from your home\, office\, or vacation rental. And when you book with Melier\, you’re directly supporting the tastemakers who are bringing their creations to life.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/heather-morris-1-21-24/
LOCATION:Hook and Ladder: 2134 Olivet Road\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95401
CATEGORIES:Event,Wine Pairing
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SUMMARY:Sisters Under the Rising Sun: a Brunch Adventure featuring New York Times and international bestselling author Heather Morris
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nDiscover the power of sisterhood\, bravery\, and friendship in the darkest of circumstances… \n…in the latest historical novel by Heather Morris\, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz\, Cilka’s Journey\, and Three Sisters. Joining us all the way from Australia\, Heather is looking forward to meeting you at Broken Yolk Cafe in Carmel Mountain Plaza for a delicious brunch and stimulating conversation as we discuss her latest novel\, Sisters Under the Rising Sun\, a novel of sisterhood\, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances\,. \nYour Adventure includes brunch\, coffee\, tax\, gratuity\, and an opportunity to meet Heather up close and personal in an intimate setting. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nHeather Morris is the Australian-based\, multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz\, Cilka’s Journey\, and Three Sisters. Her work has been praised by the New York Times\, Publisher’s Weekly\, and many others. \nHer latest novel\, Sisters Under the Rising Sun\, tells the story of two incredible women\, Norah Chambers and Nesta James\, who are held captive in a notorious POW camp by the Japanese during World War II. Woman’s Own calls the novel “an earth-shattering read\,” and you can hear all about it over a lovely brunch. \n\n\nAbout Broken Yolk Cafe\nBroken Yolk Cafe started in 1979 in Pacific Beach and has since expanded across the country. They’re known for their wonderful service\, food\, and mimosas.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/heather-morris-1-20-24/
CATEGORIES:Brunch Adventures,Event,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Turnaround Time: a virtual Strategies for Success Adventure with Former United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nFor over 13 years\, Adventures by the Book has been offering our signature one-of-a-kind\, multi-sensorial events and travels with authors. That’s because when it comes to connecting people and communities with books\, we mean business! \nAnd now\, we are taking that mission quite literally and are thrilled to welcome you to join the next in our new Adventures by the Book Means Business series\, offering you the opportunity to meet some of the greatest minds in the business world. \n \nAnd speaking of the greatest minds in business\, we invite you to meet Oscar Munoz\, former United Airlines CEO\, on the Strategies for Success (SFS) Network\, presented by MasterClass. Oscar will be joined in conversation on the virtual Fireside platform with SFS founders and hosts Falon Fatemi and Greg McBeth\, as this brilliant trio discusses Oscar’s new book\, Turnaround Time: Uniting an Airline and Its Employees in the Friendly Skies\, a Wall Street Journal bestseller that offers a behind-the-scenes look at how Oscar led United Airlines’ remarkable turnaround. \n\nRegistration\nRegister for free\, or if you want the VIP treatment which allows you the exclusive opportunity to chat or ask questions live with Oscar\, Greg\, and Falon during the program (as well as with future high profile speakers and authors)\, including coaching and giveaways and much more\, check out their exciting SFS Network membership plan. \nWhile this Adventure is free\, you can purchase a hardcover copy of Turnaround Time below\, to be shipped to you within the U.S. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nOscar Munoz took the helm of a United that was flying through very turbulent skies\, and was anything but United. \nA stalled merger\, dismal operational and financial performance\, tortured labor relations and rock-bottom customer satisfaction and employee morale meant United was in freefall. \n\n\nWithin five years\, United was flying high\, achieving top-tier reliability and profits\, winning back customer loyalty\, and earning the praise of each of its major union leaders. Most importantly\, frontline employees were finally flying together as a team\, after the turmoil of a merger that finally was ratified eight years to the day after it was begun. \nOscar credits his employees for pulling off the airline comeback story of all time\, and it began with a Wall Street-defying strategy to put employees first\, as the foundation of rebuilding. \n\n\n\n\nBehind the scenes\, another personal drama was unfolding. On Day 37 of his tenure\, he suffered a massive heart attack. He woke from a coma only to fight for his job\, fend off a proxy battle from activist investors\, manage PR crises\, all while learning the three-dimensional chess game that is required to obtain a heart transplant. \nAs CEO\, then Chairman\, he also led negotiations for the CARES Act\, and helped marshal the airline sector response to Covid. \n\n\n\n\n\nToday\, Oscar remains beloved by the rank-and-file of United Airlines for his authenticity\, faith in his employees\, and for turning the company around by creating a New Spirit of United. \nIn his new book\, he provides the details of his incredible story. \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nAbout the Moderators and SFS Network\n\n\nWith the SFS Network\, serial entrepreneurs and husband and wife team Greg McBeth and Falon Fatemi are bringing together leaders with expertise across life\, love\, and business\, in order to discuss and learn what it takes to find success in all three areas. \nConversations are interactive and explore personal successes and failures\, including from Greg and Falon’s own lives\, and deep dive into the skills and habits required to achieve consistent success. Join this first-of-its-kind community to connect and win together. \nGreg and Falon are both serial entrepreneurs and CEO’s (of Melier and Fireside\, respectively)\, who have held leadership roles at companies ranging from early startups to Fortune 100’s. Collectively\, they have raised more than $100 million in venture funding across AI\, B2B\, Consumer Software\, Media\, and Food and Hospitality\, and helped grow billion dollar private and public companies. \nThey’ve also hired and led teams of world-class operators\, generated hundreds of million in revenue for businesses\, sold companies\, and even had a hand at making a few marriages. \nGreg and Falon have been married for over eight years. Today\, their marriage is stronger than ever and they just had their first child. They currently split their time between Napa Valley and Miami. \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/oscar-munoz-1-18-24/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Deep Waters: a Mission Bay Yacht Club Adventure with Award-Winning Memoirist Beth Ann Mathews
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nMission Bay Yacht Club has a rich history of sailing and boating in San Diego\, so we couldn’t think of a more perfect venue to delve into the Deep Waters of marine biologist Beth Ann Mathews’ memoir. \nJoin us on the Bay for this FREE opportunity to hear Beth discuss her memoir\, Deep Waters\, the inspirational story of how her family dealt with her husband’s rare kind of stroke\, how it affected her career\, and how she learned to adapt and overcome. With her expertise in biology and marine mammalogy\, she’ll also have plenty of insights to share about the natural world and life in the sea. \nGet ready to take in the gorgeous sights at Mission Bay Yacht Club and meet the author live and in-person. Event includes a power point presentation\, author talk\, and book signing. Pre-order your book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Copies will also be available at the event for purchase and signing.  We hope to see you there! \nAbout the Author and Book\n \n\nBeth Ann Mathews is a marine biologist and a mother of one son. She grew up in a large family in the Midwest and earned a degree in Animal Science at Purdue University. As a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast\, Beth taught courses in biology\, behavioral ecology\, and marine mammalogy and led research on harbor seals\, Steller sea lions\, and harbor porpoises with her students\, mainly in Glacier Bay National Park. After twenty years in Alaska\, Beth and her husband sold their home to begin an expedition with their young son on the family’s 42-foot sailboat from Alaska to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. \nFeedback from her blog during the three-year journey inspired her to write stories about their sailing adventures as well as Deep Waters\, a memoir about her family’s struggle to survive\, and move beyond\, her husband’s unusual stroke in 2008. This memoir won the Memoirs (personal struggle/health issues) category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards\, and a bronze award in the Independent Publishers Book Awards\, for Best Regional Non-Fiction\, West-Pacific region. \nDeep Waters is a gripping\, intimate story of relationship resilience set against the backdrop of Alaska’s dramatic marine wilderness. A marine biologist’s adventurous life as a professor\, wife\, and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska’s magnificent yet unforgiving waters. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Beth Ann or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required. Seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. You may pre-order a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event as well. \n\n\nAbout Mission Bay Yacht Club\nMission Bay Yacht Club has a rich history and a strong tradition of Corinthian sailboat racing. This is encouraged by Club sponsored regattas throughout the year. You will find national champions and novices alike competing in our regattas. Mission Bay Yacht Club’s ideal location makes it a favorite venue for national and world championship sailing regattas. Recently\, the US Sailing Association named MBYC the “One-Design Yacht Club of the Year.”
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/beth-ann-mathews-1-13-24/
LOCATION:Mission Bay Yacht Club 1215 El Carmel Place San Diego\, CA 92109
CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Deep Waters Dinner Adventure with Award-Winning Memoirist Beth Ann Mathews
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nYou are invited to join us in an intimate dinner Adventure at King’s Fish House\, San Diego\, as we delve into the Deep Waters of marine biologist  Beth Ann Mathews’ memoir. \nBeth’s memoir\, Deep Waters\, is the inspirational story of how her family dealt with her husband’s rare kind of stroke\, how it affected her career\, and how she learned to adapt and overcome. With her expertise in biology and marine mammalogy\, she’ll also have plenty of insights to share about the natural world and life in the sea. \nEvent includes an intimate dinner\, soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, author talk\, and book signing. Pre-order your book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Copies will also be available at the event for purchase and signing.  We hope to see you there! \nAbout the Author and Book\n \n\nBeth Ann Mathews is a marine biologist and a mother of one son. She grew up in a large family in the Midwest and earned a degree in Animal Science at Purdue University. As a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast\, Beth taught courses in biology\, behavioral ecology\, and marine mammalogy and led research on harbor seals\, Steller sea lions\, and harbor porpoises with her students\, mainly in Glacier Bay National Park. After twenty years in Alaska\, Beth and her husband sold their home to begin an expedition with their young son on the family’s 42-foot sailboat from Alaska to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. \nFeedback from her blog during the three-year journey inspired her to write stories about their sailing adventures as well as Deep Waters\, a memoir about her family’s struggle to survive\, and move beyond\, her husband’s unusual stroke in 2008. This memoir won the Memoirs (personal struggle/health issues) category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards\, and a bronze award in the Independent Publishers Book Awards\, for Best Regional Non-Fiction\, West-Pacific region. \nDeep Waters is a gripping\, intimate story of relationship resilience set against the backdrop of Alaska’s dramatic marine wilderness. A marine biologist’s adventurous life as a professor\, wife\, and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska’s magnificent yet unforgiving waters. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Beth Ann or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n\n\nConnect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n\n\n\nRegistration\nTo register for this event\, select the Dinner Event option below. You may pre-order a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event as well.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/beth-ann-mathews-1-10-24/
LOCATION:King’s Fish House Restaurant\, 825 Camino De La Reina\, San DIego\, CA\, 92108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dinner Adventures,Event,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 1): a FREE in-person series marine biologist and author Beth Ann Mathews
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2024 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet seven bestselling and fan-favorite authors: Beth Ann Mathews\, Elizabeth Cobbs\, Elizabeth L. Silver\, Carl Vonderau\, Jesse Leon\, Madhushree Ghosh and Mona Gable. \nPart 1 – Just in time for the January Gray Whale migration in San Diego\, join marine biologist Beth Ann Mathews to discuss her deeply personal memoir\, Deep Waters. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 1 featuring Beth Ann Mathews: Monday\, January 8\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 2 featuring Elizabeth Cobbs: Wednesday\, February 7\, 1:00 pm Pacific (note the date and time change for this event only) \nPART 3 featuring Carl Vonderau: Monday\, May 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Elizabeth L. Silver: Monday\, June 10\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Jesse Leon: Monday\, September 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 6 featuring Madhushree Ghosh: Monday\, October 28\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 7 featuring Mona Gable: Monday\, November 4\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n  \n\nPart 1: Beth Ann Mathews\n \nBeth Ann Mathews is a marine biologist and a mother of one son. She grew up in a large family in the Midwest and earned a degree in Animal Science at Purdue University. As a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast\, Beth taught courses in biology\, behavioral ecology\, and marine mammalogy and led research on harbor seals\, Steller sea lions\, and harbor porpoises with her students\, mainly in Glacier Bay National Park. After twenty years in Alaska\, Beth and her husband sold their home to begin an expedition with their young son on the family’s 42-foot sailboat from Alaska to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. \nFeedback from her blog during the three-year journey inspired her to write stories about their sailing adventures as well as Deep Waters\, a memoir about her family’s struggle to survive\, and move beyond\, her husband’s unusual stroke in 2008. This memoir won the Memoirs (personal struggle/health issues) category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards\, and a bronze award in the Independent Publishers Book Awards\, for Best Regional Non-Fiction\, West-Pacific region. \nDeep Waters is a gripping\, intimate story of relationship resilience set against the backdrop of Alaska’s dramatic marine wilderness. A marine biologist’s adventurous life as a professor\, wife\, and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska’s magnificent yet unforgiving waters. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Beth Ann or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nPart 2: Elizabeth Cobbs\n\n \nElizabeth Cobbs is an award-winning historian who brings fresh\, unexpected perspectives to our understanding of the past and present. Building upon worldwide archival research and her own extraordinary life experiences\, Elizabeth writes best selling  fiction and non-fiction that is both scholarly and witty. Her path-breaking books\, articles\, and documentary films reveal a world that is as intriguing and surprising as it is real. Elizabeth earned her Ph.D. in American history at Stanford University. She now holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair at Texas A&M University. Her books have won four literary prizes\, two for American history and two for fiction\, and she has won four prizes for documentary filmmaking. \nWhen America became a nation\, a woman had no legal existence beyond her husband. If he abused her\, she couldn’t leave without abandoning her children. Abigail Adams tried to change this\, reminding her husband John to “remember the ladies” when he wrote the Constitution. He simply laughed―and women have been fighting for their rights ever since. Fearless Women tells the story of women who dared to take destiny into their own hands. They were feminists and antifeminists\, activists and homemakers\, victims of abuse and pathbreaking professionals. Inspired by the nation’s ideals and fueled by an unshakeable sense of right and wrong\, they wouldn’t take no for an answer. In time\, they carried the country with them. \n\n\n  \n\nPart 3: Carl Vonderau\n\n \n\nCarl Vonderau is an award-winning author of crime fiction. As a child growing up in Cleveland\, he loved to write. His ghost stories scared the bejesus out of other kids. But it took a long time to become a full-time author. He left Cleveland to study at Stanford\, then spent more than thirty years as a banker in the U.S.\, Latin America\, and North Africa. Those international settings were sources of inspiration for his books. He is the president of Partners in Crime\, The San Diego chapter of the Sisters in Crime organization of authors and fans of crime writing. Additionally\, he’s a partner at San Diego Social Venture Partners\, an organization that mentors other nonprofits.His first novel\, Murderabilia\, was published in 2019 and won a Left Coast Crime award for Best Debut\, and a San Diego Book award for Best Mystery.  \nHis second novel\, Saving Myles\, follows an unassuming banker from La Jolla\, CA as he takes matters into his own hands in order to save his kidnapped son and bring him home. \nPart 4: Elizabeth L. Silver\n\n\nElizabeth L. Silver is the author of The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty\, and Amazon Best Book of the Year The Execution of Noa P. Singleton. Her work has been called “masterful” by The Wall Street Journal\, has been published in 7 languages\, and optioned for film. The Tincture of Time was featured on PBS and NPR\, and was an O Magazine/Oprah’s “Ten Books to Pick up Now.”  \nHer new novel\, The Majority\, is a riveting novel of love and friendship\, motherhood and ambition\, and one woman’s fight to be a Supreme Court justice. Covering the span of fifty years\, Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein’s personal account reveals the intimate truth about a woman who is not just a brilliant mind but a daughter\, a best friend\, a wife\, and a mother. Caught in a tug-of-war between career and family\, truth and convenience\, progress and patience\, she will be given a chance to change the course of American history. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elizabeth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \nPart 5: Jesse Leon\n \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. \nJesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. “A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives\, bodhisattvas all.” \n  \nPart 6: Madhushree Ghosh\n \nMadhushree Ghosh has written prolifically on how food—especially South Asian food—travels globally though immigration\, migration and indenture. As the daughter of refugees and an immigrant to America\, food stories inform her about the history of her people\, how they traveled and what happened to them when they held onto recipes\, let go or modified them over countries\, continents and generations. Her work has been a Notable Mention in Best American Essays in Food Writing\, Pushcart nominated and published in The New York Times\, Vogue India\, Washington Post\, LA Times\, The Writer\, Longreads\, Catapult\, BOMB\, Guernica\, LA Review of Books\, LitHub and others. She is an invited workshop leader at conferences and workshops such as Grub Street Writers\, Encinitas Writers Workshop\, San Diego Memoir Writers’ Workshop and others. \nHer debut food narrative memoir\,\, was published in 2022 by the University of Iowa Press to great acclaim. KHABAAR focuses on chefs\, home cooks\, and food stall owners\, and the author’s own immigrant journey as the daughter of refugees\, questioning what it means to belong and what does “belonging” in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. \n  \nPart 7: Mona Gable\n \nMona Gable is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Outside\, AFAR\, the Los Angeles Times\, and many others. Her article in Los Angeles magazine\, “The Hugo Problem\,” was named a Longreads Best of 2015. Since 1990\, she has written about social issues\, culture\, and politics for the Los Angeles Times. Gable grew up in San Diego\, California\, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her memoir\, “Blood Brother: The Gene That Rocked My Family\,” was published in 2014 by Shebooks. \nHer new novel\, Searching for Savanna\, arose out of a story she wrote for the late Pacific Standard magazine. It is a gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant\, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction. \n  \nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n  \n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/point-loma-series-2024/
CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Inside Threat: a Book to Film FREE Carlsbad Library Adventure featuring New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quirk
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Adventure\n\nAssume the worst. Code Black. \nNew York Times bestselling author Matthew Quirk continues to deliver high-stakes thrillers in his new book\, Inside Threat\, which imagines a White House under attack from the inside and follows the loyal agent singularly capable of saving the country. In fact\, his books are so exciting that Netflix produced a ten-episode series based on his previous novel\, The Night Agent. \nNow\, for the first time\, you can join Matthew at the Carlsbad City Library for a screening of the first episode of the Netflix series\, which combines the plot of Matt’s book with showrunner Shawn Ryan’s story about the Secret Service and high political intrigue. An author presentation will follow\, with Matt discussing his new thriller\, Inside Threat. You won’t want to miss this combined film screening/book presentation Adventure. \nYour Adventure will include the film screening of the first episode of The Night Agent\, author presentation\, Q&A\, and book signing. \n  \nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. However\, copies of Inside Threat are available for pre-sale below and they will be delivered to the event for signing. Books will be also be available for purchase and signing at the event. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nMatthew Quirk is the New York Times bestselling author of The 500\, The Directive\, Dead Man Switch\, Cold Barrel Zero\, and The Night Agent. He spent five years at The Atlantic magazine reporting on crime\, private military contractors\, terrorism prosecutions\, and international gangs before turning to fiction. An Edgar award finalist and winner of the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel\, Matthew lives in San Diego. \nHis new thriller\, Inside Threat\, explores an attack on the White House sending the President and his top aides to take shelter in a top secret government facility buried deep underground—but they soon discover the threat is locked inside with them. \nEric Hill\, a man who has given his life to the Secret Service\, is one of the trusted agents hidden with the President within the bunker. Despite his growing disillusionment from seeing Washington corruption up close\, Erik can’t ignore years of instincts honed on the job. The government is under attack\, and no one is better equipped to face down the threat than he is. \nThe evidence leads him to a conspiracy at the highest levels of power\, with the attack orchestrated by some of the very individuals now locked in with him. As the killers strike inside the bunker\, it will take everything Erik Hill has to save his people\, himself\, and his country. \n  \nAbout The Show\n \nWhile monitoring an emergency line\, a vigilant FBI agent answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole at the White House. The Night Agent stars Gabriel Basso\, Luciane Buchanan\, and Oscar nominee Hong Chau. Season 1 is available now on Netflix and season 2 is set to be released in 2024. \n  \nAbout the Carlsbad City Library\n\n\nCarlsbad City Library provides community members of all ages with convenient access to high-quality resources and services to inform and enrich individual and community life. Carlsbad City Library is the destination for information\, enjoyment of reading\, lifelong learning\, and cultural enrichment for those who live\, work and play in Carlsbad.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/matthew-quirk-1-6-2024-2/
CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,SoCal Adventures
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SUMMARY:A True Pyrate Account: a Yacht Club Lunch Adventure with New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nIt’s time to sail forward and continue with this exciting author series held at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club. \nFrom the author of the bestselling historical fiction novels The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The House of Velvet and Glass comes a mystery adventure set in the Golden Age of Piracy. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to have lunch at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club in the beautiful Point Loma residential area within the Shelter Island Yacht Basin with New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katherine Howe as she discusses her new novel\, A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates\, Written by Herself. \nYour Adventure includes lunch\, beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, a hardcover copy of A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates\, Written by Herself to be delivered and signed at the event\, and the opportunity to meet the author live and in-person. \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nKatherine Howe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane\, The House of Velvet and Glass\, and Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty with Anderson Cooper\, as well as several young adult novels. She served as editor of The Penguin Book of Witches and her fiction has been translated into over twenty languages. Descended from three women who were tried for witchcraft in Salem\, she lives and sails with her family in New England. \nHer new novel\, A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates\, Written by Herself\,\nis a daring first-hand account of one young woman’s unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time. \nIn Boston\, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close\, Hannah Masury – bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood – is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread\, Hannah is forced to flee for her life\, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward “Ned” Low. To earn the freedom to choose a path for herself\, Hannah must hunt down the treasure and change the tides. Meanwhile\, professor Marian Beresford pieces Hannah’s story together in 1930\, seeing her own lack of freedom reflected back at her as she watches Hannah’s transformation. \nA True Account tells the unforgettable story of two women in different worlds\, both shattering the rules of their own society and daring to risk everything to go out on their own account. \n\n  \n\nAbout Southwestern Yacht Club\nSouthwestern Yacht Club is one of the largest\, oldest\, and most prestigious yacht clubs in San Diego\, California. SWYC was formed in 1925 by visionary yachting enthusiasts looking for ways to enjoy each other’s company and to share their passion for boating. Since then\, the Club has developed into a full-service operation with more than 800 members embracing all forms of yachting\, fishing\, and social activities\, all while earning a reputation as being the friendliest club in the area. \n \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/katherine-howe-12-8-23/
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SUMMARY:Moonshot: a virtual Strategies for Success Adventure featuring astronaut and author Mike Massimino in conversation with Fireside CEO Falon Fatemi and Melier CEO Greg McBeth
DESCRIPTION:About the Adventure\n\nFor over 13 years\, Adventures by the Book has been offering our signature one-of-a-kind\, multi-sensorial events and travels with authors. That’s because when it comes to connecting people and communities with books\, we mean business! \nAnd now\, we are taking that mission quite literally and are thrilled to welcome you to join the next in our new Adventures by the Book Means Business series\, offering you the opportunity to meet some of the greatest minds in the business world. \n \nAnd speaking of the greatest minds in business\, we invite you to meet Mike Massimino\, astronaut\, author\, and podcast host\, on the Strategies for Success (SFS) Network presented by Master Class on Fireside. Mike will be joined in conversation with SFS founders and hosts Falon Fatemi and Greg McBeth\, as this brilliant trio discuss Mike’s new book\, Moonshot. Learn how Mike achieved unparalleled business growth and success\, and how you can too\, particularly for start-ups. \nRegistration\nRegister for free\, or if you want the VIP treatment which allows you the exclusive opportunity to chat or ask questions live with Mike\, Greg\, and Falon during the program (as well as with future high profile speakers and authors)\, including coaching and giveaways and much more\, check out their exciting SFS Network membership plan. \nWhile this Adventure is free\, you can purchase a paperback copy of Moonshot below\, to be shipped to you within the U.S. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n\n\n \nMike Massimino\, a former NASA astronaut\, is a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea\, Air & Space Museum. He received a BS from Columbia University\, and MS degrees in mechanical engineering and in technology and policy\, as well as a PhD in mechanical engineering\, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \nAfter working as an engineer at IBM\, NASA\, and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace\, along with academic appointments at Rice University and at the Georgia Institute of Technology\, Mike was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1996\, and is the veteran of two space flights\, the fourth and fifth Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions in 2002 and 2009. Mike has a team record for the number of hours spacewalking in a single space shuttle mission\, and he was also the first person to tweet from space. During his NASA career he received two NASA Space Flight Medals\, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal\, the American Astronautical Society’s Flight Achievement Award\, and the Star of Italian Solidarity. \nMike has made numerous television appearances\, including a six-time recurring role as himself on the CBS hit comedy The Big Bang Theory. He has hosted Science Channel’s The Planets and its special Great American Eclipse. He is featured in National Geographic Channel’s series One Strange Rock and is the host for Science Channel’s series The Planets and Beyond. He is a frequent guest on television news and talk show programs\, including NBC’s Today Show\, ABC’s Good Morning America\, and CNN. He has also appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson\, and on StarTalk radio and television shows. \nIn his new book\, Moonshot\, the former NASA Astronaut outlines his mindset to solve problems\, provide leadership in the face of adversity\, and never give up when pursuing your wildest ambitions. \nMike Massimino achieved his dream of exploring space. Now he distills stories and insights from NASA into an actionable guide to accomplish your biggest goals. Mike reveals how to make possible the seemingly impossible—on Earth. Written with characteristic wit and a big heart\, Mike identifies ten hard-earned lessons of spaceflight and his other life experiences\, including \n\n\n\nAbout the Moderators and SFS Network\n\n\n \nWith the SFS Network\, serial entrepreneurs and husband and wife team Greg McBeth and Falon Fatemi are bringing together leaders with expertise across life\, love\, and business\, in order to discuss and learn what it takes to find success in all three areas. \nConversations are interactive and explore personal successes and failures\, including from Greg and Falon’s own lives\, and deep dive into the skills and habits required to achieve consistent success. Join this first-of-its-kind community to connect and win together. \nGreg and Falon are both serial entrepreneurs and CEO’s (of Melier and Fireside\, respectively)\, who have held leadership roles at companies ranging from early startups to Fortune 100’s. Collectively\, they have raised more than $100 million in venture funding across AI\, B2B\, Consumer Software\, Media\, and Food and Hospitality\, and helped grow billion dollar private and public companies. \nThey’ve also hired and led teams of world-class operators\, generated hundreds of million in revenue for businesses\, sold companies\, and even had a hand at making a few marriages. \nGreg and Falon have been married for over eight years. Today\, their marriage is stronger than ever and they are expecting their first child. They currently split their time between Napa Valley and Miami. \n\n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/mike-massimino-12-7-23/
CATEGORIES:ABTB Means Business,Event,Fireside Chat
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SUMMARY:Bright Lights\, City Lights: a Big Christmas Adventure featuring New York Times bestselling author and Friends & Fiction star Mary Kay Andrews
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n“From a magical Santa suit\, to a Christmas tree stand in the heart of New York\, to a neighborhood full of quirky characters\, and the smell of fresh cut pine Christmas trees\, nobody does Christmas like Mary Kay Andrews.”\n—Debbie Macomber\, #1 New York Times bestselling author \nThe holiday season is only a month away! Get into the spirit early while celebrating New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews’s new book\, a Christmas novella about love\, second chances and people taking care of each other\, on this Big Christmas Adventure! \nJoin us at City Lights Christmas Store for a wonderfully\, festive event! Peruse the eclectic and varied shelves within this immense store and learn from Mary Kay about her new novel which follows protagonist Kerry Tolliver as she arrives in Manhattan for the first time to sell her family’s Christmas trees and the adventure that’s more than she bargained for. Enjoy some delicious Christmas cookies with a glass of wine or sparkling cider\, surrounded by all kinds of holiday decorations to get yourself into the spirit of the season! \nYour holiday extravaganza Adventure includes Christmas cookies\, a glass of wine or sparkling cider\, a festive presentation by Mary Kay Andrews\, a 20% off shopping coupon to the entire City Lights Christmas Store\, a hardcover copy of Bright Lights\, Big Christmas to be signed at the event\, and an opportunity to meet the author up close and personal in an intimate setting. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nMary Kay Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels and one cookbook\, The Beach House Cookbook. Her first novel\, Every Crooked Nanny\, was published in 1992 by HarperCollins. She went on to write ten critically acclaimed mysteries under her real name\, Kathy Hogan Trocheck. \nIn 2002\, she assumed the pen name Mary Kay Andrews with the publication of Savannah Blues. In 2006\, Hissy Fit became her first New York Times bestseller\, followed by fifteen more New York Times\, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestsellers. To date\, her novels have been published in German\, Italian\, Polish\, Slovenian\, Hungarian\, Dutch\, Czech and Japanese. \nBright Lights\, Big Christmas is a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances. \nWhen fall rolls around\, it’s time for Kerry Tolliver to leave her family’s Christmas tree farm in the mountains of North Carolina for the wilds of New York City to help her gruff older brother & his dog\, Queenie\, sell the trees at the family stand on a corner in Greenwich Village. Sharing a tiny vintage camper and experiencing Manhattan for the first time\, Kerry’s ready to try to carve out a new corner for herself. \nIn the weeks leading into Christmas\, Kerry quickly becomes close with the charming neighbors who live near their stand. When an elderly neighbor goes missing\, Kerry will need to combine her country know-how with her newly acquired New York knowledge to protect the new friends she’s come to think of as family. \nAnd complicating everything is Patrick\, a single dad raising his adorable\, dragon-loving son Austin on this quirky block. Kerry and Patrick’s chemistry is undeniable\, but what chance does this holiday romance really have? \n  \nAbout City Lights Christmas Store\nCity Lights Collectibles opened in September 1991 on the ground floor of a large office block just off of the I-5 freeway at Sea World Drive in San Diego. Brian Young\, the founder of City Lights\, had retired from being managing director of a sizeable retail group of companies in the UK.  He moved along with his wife Laura and 12-year-old son Spencer from London to San Diego in the golden state of California. \nBrian was a great admirer of Americans and their lifestyle. He had spent many vacations in the USA and cherished the idea of retiring there. Unfortunately\, going from a very active business and social life to a “what shall I do today” state of mind was not working well for him. A small retail store in a seasonal business was his idea\, and that thought morphed into City Lights. Motivated not by money but by the need to be occupied was his reasoning. \nBrian intended to be open only three days a week.  The first location was only 1\,000 square feet\, but it filled his wish to have a destination and to meet a schedule. Old habits die hard.  In the early days\, City Lights was mainly a year-round Christmas store with only two collectible lines\, Department 56 and Annalee dolls. \nSoon the word spread that San Diego now had a Christmas store\, and their clientele grew\, and with that\, so did their product lines. Now the one-person business needed a helper.  So\, Laura\, who had no customer service experience\, was pressed into service. That was when City Lights proudly became a family business and even prouder when their son Spencer graduated from college in 1997 and joined up with his parents.
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SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 5): a FREE in-person series featuring award-winning author and cook Kitty Morse
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2023 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Joe Stillman\, Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse. \nOur final part 5 features award-winning author and cook Kitty Morse\, as she discusses her book\, Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 5 featuring Kitty Morse: Monday\, November 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n  \n\nPart 5: Kitty Morse\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kitty or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n\n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave
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CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:The Truth About Horses: an Interactive Equine Therapy Adventure featuring author\, actress and producer Christy Cashman in conversation with multiple Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress Jane Seymour
DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nThe bond that develops between a horse and rider inspires a sense of teamwork\, responsibility\, communication\, caring\, and joy.  \nGet an up close and personal look at the bond that is possible between horses and humans with the help of author\, actress and producer Christy Cashman in this Interactive Equine Therapy Adventure. \nJoin Christy\, in conversation with multiple Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress Jane Seymour\, and your fellow Adventurers for a unique\, equine experience\, as Christy discusses her new book and chats with Jane about their joint project adapting The Truth About Horses into a feature presentation for the screen. Enjoy strolling the Ivey Ranch grounds as well as meeting\, touching and grooming the horses they use for their Equine Therapy Program! Learn all about what it takes to train and prepare these beautiful animals and be amazed by their power and grace. \nYour Adventure includes live interaction with the horses including petting and grooming\, a tour of the ranch\, a signed copy of The Truth About Horses\, author presentation\, a donation to Ivey Ranch Park\, a casual lunch with the ability to watch the horses while eating\, and an opportunity to meet the Christy and Jane in a close and intimate setting. \n\nPlanned Schedule:\n10:00 am –  Meet at Ivey Ranch for tour and riding exhibition \n11:00 am – Interact with horses as desired (petting\, grooming\, photos) \n12:00pm – Casual lunch \n12:30 pm – Author presentation \n1:30 pm – Book signing \n2:00 pm – Event concludes \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nChristy Cashman is an author\, producer\, philanthropist\, and actress who has appeared in several films\, including American Hustle\, Joy\, The Descendants\, Ted 2\, Kettle of Fish\, The Love Guide\, The Women\, The Golden Boys\, The Forger and many others. She is the founder of YouthINK\, a not-for-profit mentor-led creative program geared towards teenagers with a focus on writing\, storytelling\, and the arts. She is also co-chair of Literary Lights for the Associates of the Boston Public Library and has previously written two children’s books. \nIn her debut novel\, The Truth About Horses\, (currently being co-produced with Jane Seymour into a feature presentation for the screen)\, just when she thought things couldn’t get any worse\, fourteen-year-old Reese discovers they can — in the worst possible way. Her family’s dream of winning the Black Elk race is shattered when their beloved horse\, Trusted Treasure\, falls at the last jump. Reese witnesses the family’s finances\, hopes\, and happiness go up in smoke. \nThen\, during an unexpected turn of events\, Reese meets Wes\, a Lakota Indian\, whose way of training horses is unlike anything she’s ever seen. This book will have you laughing and crying – sometimes on the same page – all the while rooting for Reese\, the most unlikely of heroes. \nAbout Jane Seymour\n \nA multiple Emmy and Golden Globe winner\, recipient of the Officer of the British Empire (OBE) bestowed upon her by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace\, Jane Seymour has proven her talents in virtually all media\, the Broadway stage\, motion pictures and television. \nThrough her production company\, she has produced and starred in multiple programs. Behind the camera\, Jane served as an executive director for a documentary film. \nShe is currently teaming up with Christy Cashman to co-produce The Truth About Horses into a feature presentation for the Screen. \n\n  \n\nAbout Ivey Ranch\nThe Ivey Ranch is located within the City of Oceanside’s “Historic Preservation Area No. 1 – Mission San Luis Rey.” The Ivey Ranch House was built in 1889. The house and surrounding grounds passed through several landowners’ hands from 1891 to 1937 at which point L.O. Ivey purchased it. The Ivey’s were living in Los Angeles at the time of the purchase. \nMr. Otis Ivey was a poor boy from Texas who made good with Citizens Bank in Los Angeles starting at the beginning of the 1900’s. He lived most of his later adult life in San Marino (near Pasadena)\, then Westwood\, then Holmby Hills\, part of Los Angeles. He loved to ride horses on the ranch and loved to ride around in his open\, metallic green Jeep. It is thought that Otis Ivey stopped coming to the ranch by about 1970\, when his health slowed him down. \nIn 1981\, the Year of the Disabled\, a steering committee proposed a Concept Proposal for the establishment of a park at a twenty-acre site on the Ivey Ranch Estate. The Ivey Ranch Steering Committee proposed a plan for a park that would be fully accessible to both the disabled and able-bodied. The park envisioned by the Steering Committee would provide an environment for all groups of the area’s population to interact and relate to one another irrespective of their disabilities. \n \n\nSave
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